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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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    Vonage and AT&T settle patent dispute

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    Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:52pm EST

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital phone service Vonage (VG.N) said on Friday it has settled a patent dispute with AT&T (T.N).

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    Vonage was hit by a string of patent suits since going public in May 2006. It settled a suit with Sprint Nextel (S.N) and another one with Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) in October.

    AT&T sued the company, accusing it with using packet-based telephony products, which allows voice conversations to be carried over the Internet, based on products that use technology covered by AT&T patents.

    Vonage did not disclose the nature of the settlement, which it said occurred on November 7. The settlement was finalized on Friday.

    (Reporting by Kenneth Li, editing by Richard Chang)
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