51.   Some had portable phones and compact disc players.

52.   Telephone service operator DDI Corp. saw profit almost double in the year ended March thanks to a surge in portable phone use in Japan.

53.   TDK Corp. wants to put a quivering pen in pockets of portable phone users to alert them to incoming calls.

54.   TDK makes hard disk drives and drive heads used as data storage in computers as well as noise filters used in portable phones to ensure clear reception.

55.   The battery-powered device is about the size of a portable phone and features a digital display.

56.   The city is increasing enforcement, raising fines and creating a corps of civilian informers who will carry portable phones to report violations of the leash law.

57.   The clubs now offer members everything from Internet access, portable phones and document shredders to showers, valet service and timbale of butternut squash risotto.

58.   The company is spending heavily to increase production of portable phones using CDMA technology.

59.   The company takes some countermeasures against misuse of the portable phones.

60.   The findings, incidentally, surfaced about the time portable phones began showing up on golf courses and fax machines were being marketed for cars.