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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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    Motorola plans job cuts, focus on Google software: report

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    Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:47am EDT
    A Motorola logo is seen on their building at an industrial estate in Singapore April 3, 2008. . REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc's co-chief executive, Sanjay Jha, plans to make more job cuts and simplify how it makes devices, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Tuesday.

    Details of the plan, which could include thousands of layoffs, could be announced Thursday, when the company reports its results, the paper said.

    Jha, who heads the mobile devices business, has decided to focus on Google Inc Android software as the operating system for many new phones, the Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.

    The paper said Motorola will build mid-tier devices, which account for most of its sales, around Android, while business-focused devices will be based on Microsoft Corp's Windows Mobile. The company will use its own platform, P2K, for low-end phones, the paper reported.

    The company is also seeking to outsource production of some Windows Mobile phones, the paper said.

    Motorola declined to comment.

    (Reporting by Paritosh Bansal; Editing by Gary Hill)


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