In today’s world, smartphones are the go-to devices for remote music listening. But decades ago, the iconic Sony Walkman was the preferred choice for listening through headphones to music on walks, ...

Attention, the 160 million or so owners of an Apple iPod MP3 player: take out those white earbuds and listen for a second. Before the iPod became ubiquitous — way, way before — there was the Walkman.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Walkman, the Sony cassette device that forever changed music listening before becoming outdated by digital MP3 players and iPods, has died. It was 31 years old. Sony announced on ...

But Walkman units that play cassette tapes…are not. Sony has decided to lay to rest their portable cassette player line, and what's incredible is that it lasted all the way until 2010. The only time ...

Imagine leaving the house without mobile music? We know, perish the thought. Music-on-the-go has been a simple pleasure for decades – but not in the smartphone and wireless earbud combination we know ...

The Sony Walkman is turning 40 this year, and while Sony has come a long way since the 1970s, it's not forgetting the product that helped make it famous. Earlier this year, the company celebrated the ...

The big picture: Sony built on the success of the Walkman with the Discman, a portable CD player that was equally as popular with the era's youth and helped popularize compact discs as an audio format ...

A Walkman? In this day and age? Well, yes. Sony is still at the front of mind for a number of "retro" audio formats including its iconic cassette players-- plus, the sales of the humble CD are again ...

"Ain't nothin' like it, her shiny machine/Got the feel for the wheel, keep the moving parts clean ..." And with those words from 20th century poet David Lee Roth, coming through a pair of Tang-orange ...