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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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    Vodafone in venture to boost mobile Internet

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    Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:32am EDT
    A Japanese woman passes a logo of British Vodafone Group Plc outside its Japanese unit's headquarters in Tokyo in this March 4, 2006 file photo. Vodafone said on Thursday it was linking up with China Mobile and Softbank to help accelerate the commercial deployment of mobile Internet services. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa

    LONDON (Reuters) - British mobile phone group Vodafone said on Thursday it was linking up with China Mobile and Softbank to help accelerate the commercial deployment of mobile Internet services.

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    The initiative is expected to promote applications that run across handset platforms and the operating systems of different mobile operators, Vodafone said in a statement.

    (Reporting by Alastair Sharp, Editing by Mark Potter)
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