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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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    Google plan sees phones by mid-2008: report

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    Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:28am EDT
    The Google website is shown in this photo. Google is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. REUTERS/Handout

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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    The announcement is expected to come within the next two weeks, the newspaper reported.

    No one at Google could immediately be reached for comment.

    Google has moved rapidly over the past year to extend its reach beyond text-based, pay-per-click Web search advertising into a variety of new markets, including online video, television, radio and print advertising.

    Google has also expanded into enterprise software, which has traditionally been Microsoft Corp's domain.

    According the Wall Street Journal, the Google-powered phones are expected to meld several of its applications, including Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail.

    The ground-breaking part of the plan, according to the newspaper, is Google's aim to make the phone's software "open", right down to the operating system which controls applications and interacts with hardware.

    This will grant independent software developers access to the tools they need to build additional phone features, the Wall Street Journal said.

    (Reporting by Justin Grant)
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