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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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    Clearwire to use "Clear" brand instead of "Xohm"

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    Mon Dec 1, 2008 10:23am EST

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp said on Monday that it would call its high-speed wireless WiMax service "Clear" instead of the "Xohm" brand its venture partner Sprint Nextel has been using.

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    The new name was announced after Clearwire closed its $14.5 billion venture with Sprint and other investors last Friday. Sprint is contributing wireless airwaves to the venture.

    The venture, to be called Clearwire, also attracted $3.2 billion of investments from companies such as Time Warner Cable Inc and Comcast Corp as well as Intel Corp and Google Inc.

    For the venture's first twenty days, it will trade under the CLWRD symbol before reverting back to its CLRW trading symbol, Clearwire said.

    Clearwire shares were up 57 cents or more than 8 percent at $7.19 in morning trade on Nasdaq.

    (Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Derek Caney)
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