Before their face-to-face encounters with I.R.S. employees, before they got a chance to hear about the agency's "work-life balance" and its portable retirement plan, they had to do some waiting.
Taking up the fight with Sony's recently released PlayStation Portable, Nintendo plans to bring online multiplayer action to its own handheld gaming system.
However, these portable benefits plans would give the nice lady who just brought you a burrito for lunch, the kid who cleaned your house or the guy who dropped you off at work this morning options in helping them continue paying bills and take care of themselves should something happen.
A George Washington University professor has warned Barack Obama's inauguration committee that the 5,000 portable toilets planned for the massive number of people attending the inauguration may be "grossly inadequate" to suit their needs.
If you brought a portable stove or plan to cook with a fire, you can heat some water and fill a hot water bag to use for the night.
The Active Corporation, a two-year-old company in Castine, Me., has introduced a portable heart monitor planned for use with Palm hand-held devices.
By autumn, in response to consumer demand for greater data storage in portable devices, Hitachi plans to begin selling a one-inch-square disk drive unit with four billion bytes of data storage -- four times the capacity of the same-size disk drive now offered by I.B.M.
Now, aided by the advent of more robust wireless networks and cheaper data plans, portable videoconferencing gadgets are moving closer to reality.
If you don't have a compatible portable device, SanDisk plans to sell a bare bones digital music player essentially a card reader with a headphone jack for $19.99.
The plan is portable, meaning no New Zealander has to worry about whether his next company will have a 401k plan or how to handle the paperwork.
