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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Orange, HP in notebook pact

    PARIS
    Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:30pm EDT

    PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom's Orange said on Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hewlett-Packard for notebooks with broadband access.

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    The goal is to reach a strategic agreement during the first quarter of 2009 and launch connected offers in certain countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, making the latest technology in seamless Internet access available to consumers.

    The pact concerns a range of consumer notebooks with mobile and fixed broadband access.

    Online portable devices such as Research in Motion's Blackberry or the iPhone from Apple have proved a market success. Notebooks are bigger than mobile phones but smaller than laptop computers.

    (Reporting by Marcel Michelson)
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