Sumitomo Trust is also said to be part of the portable-pensions initiative, along with America's Citibank.
This explains why Transmeta is, initially at least, aiming its products at the portable-computer market.
If you're not familiar, the 'P' in 4P stands for portable -- portable like a suitcase full of bricks.
Some publishers also are focusing their portable-reading efforts on devices people already use.
As a result, Sony handed its leadership of the portable-music market, which it established with the Sony Walkman, to Apple.
The classic argument against electronic news was that it wasn't very portable -- you couldn't take it with you anywhere.
The PlayStation Portable is really targeting guys 18 to 34, and therefore, these are guys that, by and large, have stopped portable-gaming.
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If you're savvy enough to want to use the Facebook Mobile app, we're guessing you're savvy enough to get it up and running on your phone or portable -- so buying an additional device for responding to friend requests seems a little silly.
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Sony once dominated the portable-music market with its Walkman, but since the onset of digital music it has handed control of the market to Apple by refusing to support the MP3 format, the pirates' favourite, in its players, and pushing its own proprietary format instead.
"The benefit of the Raspberry Pi is that it's very portable - if someone gives you an SD card with games on it you can come home and play it on your TV, your parents can see it, your friends can see it, " said the team's mentor Luke Staddon from IBM.
While we got a quick look at the thing a few months ago, we were finally able to get our mitts all over Panasonic's new DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray player.
But some of our favorite designs are the ones that do social good, like Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun -- a portable solar-powered lamp that's being distributed to people who live without electricity worldwide.
The MediaPad 7 Lite is our answer to consumers' demands for a good-looking, portable high-performance tablet at a price that makes sense for them.
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D-VARs that fit into portable tractor-trailers and can be parked right next to existing substations.
If it can't, ViewSonic may wind up with a bunch of cool-looking, sophisticated, portable flat-screen devices that no one wants to buy.
It remains as part of their collection - either on a PC or on a portable player - for only as long as they continue to subscribe.
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We'll forgive the extremely nice folk behind the PDJ when they claim to have the first fully self-contained portable DJ set-up.
As its initial action, the Task Force forged partnerships with the five largest manufacturing credentialing bodies to provide opportunities for service members to gain industry-recognized, nationally-portable certifications for high-demand manufacturing jobs -- including welding, machining, maintenance, and logistics -- almost all of which have median hourly wages above the national average.
Items you'll need: computers (PCs or Macs), a main storage server, a back-up server (in case the main server dies) and portable hard-drive stored off-site (if the house catches fire).
These included the original battery-powered pocket transistor radio, launched in 1955, and the first portable solid-state black-and-white television, in 1960.
With lessons learned from the standout success of its portable Nintendo DS--the company garnered 82% of portable software sales and sold 13 million DS units last year--the company has never had a clearer opportunity to differentiate itself to American audiences.
Acoustic Research (AR) , a brand owned by VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX), today unveiled a new addition to its line of Bluetooth indoor portable wireless speakers -- the ARS60 portable wireless speaker.
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Matrix is certainly not the first company to try to establish a new portable write-once format.
The staff managed to save all the portable equipment -- computer, sound and lighting systems.
Or an inventory manager may be scanning in recent shipments with a portable bar-coder.
Sharp also debuted TelMail, a portable e-mail appliance for sending and receiving e-mail messages using a regular telephone.
With the wine grapes in, farmers turn their minds to olives, and portable olive-pressing equipment seems to pop up all over.
Motorola just announced a new portable DVB-H TV to followup its DH01.
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They used a portable X-ray device to give the cables the superman treatment.
The market in portable touch-screen devices has been dominated by news -- good and bad -- about Apple's new iPhone.
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