Word: pushed
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...right words, such as "globalization" and "liberalization." But when it comes to tackling France's sclerotic labor market, he talks of "assouplissement" - softening. He wants to tinker with the 35-hour workweek, not scratch it. To encourage workers, he wants to cut taxes on overtime. How to push growth? Let's have a commission first...
...North is already getting some of the economic aid it was promised under the original agreement, so Kim may feel he has some room to pressure the U.S. over the terrorist sponsorship list. And the U.S.'s ability to push back may be limited. Much of the fuel and food aid Pyongyang is now getting comes from South Korea and China. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun has no incentive to anger Kim now that the two have agreed to a summit in Pyongyang in October. And the Chinese, in this their glorious Olympic year, have already pocketed the idea...
...Kallasvuo denied that this big push into services would damage relations with operators, saying that Nokia is finding ways to work with them. Executive vice president Anssi Vanjoki suggested that Nokia might even share Website revenue with operators. After all, the Website could be a golden opportunity for Nokia to sell advertising space, so how bad would it be to arrange a little revenue sharing with old partners? Vanjoki, who's in charge of marketing Ovi, says Nokia will be a more flexible partner than Apple, which so far has restricted the iPhone to one U.S. carrier...
...Nokia can expect more of the same rockiness. TIME also contacted major European carriers Vodafone, T-Mobile and Telefonica O2. None were willing to comment on the delicate subject of Nokia's services push. "Clearly, there are tensions. This puts them on a collision course with some their customers," says Ben Wood, a director with London telecom consultancy CCS Insight. But Wood noted that operators should consider what he called a "greater good" scenario in which customers who buy a Nokia phone through the operator might dip more into the operators own service offerings as well...
...Sony Ericsson, currently offers a limited collection of tunes from sister recording company Sony BMG, but may soon expand. "We'll have more to say in the future," says president Miles Flint. Sony Ericsson would follow Nokia's tactic of slowly building up to a full-on Web services push. In the last couple of years, Nokia has taken many small steps, tying phones into Yahoo, Flickr photo sharing and content from Turner Broadcasting, among others. Last fall, it launched a music Web site called Music Recommenders fronted by David Bowie and meant primarily as a music referral site. This...