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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 wins China Telecom network upgrade work

    BEIJING
    Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:23am EST

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Motorola has won a contract to upgrade part of China Telecom's network for advanced multimedia services, the U.S. telecom gear maker said in a statement on Tuesday.

    Technology  |  China

    Motorola will provide CDMA infrastructure in 42 Chinese cities, which would be installed in early 2009, the company said, without giving any price or other details.

    It is the second announcement about 3G network upgrade work awarded to a foreign company in recent weeks. Alcatel-Lucent said in early December it had won a $230 million contract from China Telecom to provide CDMA equipment in 56 cities.

    Foreign equipment makers are eager to secure such contracts as China will award 3G mobile phone licenses by the start of 2009 and the government has said at least $29.2 billion will be invested in 3G next year.

    China Mobile will get a license for TD-SCDMA, the homegrown 3G standard, China Unicom will operate a WCDMA system, while China Telecom will get a license for CDMA 2000 technology.

    ($=6.85 yuan)

    (Reporting by Michael Wei; Editing by Kirby Chien and Keiron Henderson)
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