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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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    China Mobile soars after 3G approval; pushes HSI up

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    Fri Jan 2, 2009 7:30am EST

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    A Chinese customer talks on his mobile phone outside a China Mobile branch in Beijing August 16, 2007. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

    HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Mobile (0941.HK)(CHL.N), the world's top wireless carrier, jumped more than 3 percent on Friday, helping extend gains in the broader market, after China approved the issuance of licenses for next generation (3G) mobile networks.

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    Shares of the Chinese wireless mobile service operator, which was the most heavily traded stock of the morning, rose HK$2.4 to HK$80.20.

    Its rival China Unicom (0762.HK) rose 5.2 percent to HK$9.78 while China Telecom (0728.HK), the newest entrant to China's wireless telecommunication industry, rallied 5.9 percent.

    By 10:28 p.m. ET the Hang Seng Index .HSI was 2.5 percent higher at 14,749.70 after opening up 0.4 percent.

    The China Enterprises Index of top locally listed mainland Chinese firms .HSCE had risen 2.8 percent to 8,114.41.

    China's state council on Wednesday approved the issuance of long-awaited licenses for 3G mobile networks, opening the door to some $41 billion in spending for equipment.

    The council did not say when the licenses would be issued by the Ministry of Industry of Information, but the industry minister has said it would happen by early 2009.

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