After 30 years, Sony has announced that they will stop manufacturing and selling the venerable cassette Walkman. In a poetic twist, the official death of the Walkman lands on the iPod’s 9th ...

Another iconic technological device has been banished to the dustbin of history: Sony will no longer produce its Walkman cassette player due to dismal sales. The final batch of the portable tape ...

It was the invention that defined a generation. Portable and cool, the Sony Walkman was a must-have for any self-respecting teen in the 1980s. But now Sony has announced that it will no longer be ...

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.

Malia Verniolle was almost eight years old when her father gave her a gadget she says changed her life in a number of ways. She also recalls that the earliest incarnation of the Sony Walkman had a ...

George Michael listening to a Walkman during the Japanese leg of his Faith World Tour in February 1988. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) First it was vinyl, and now it’s cassettes that all the ...

The growing popularity of digital downloads has sealed the fate of Sony’s iconic cassette Walkman, with the Japanese company announcing that it will cease production of the device. The cassette-based ...

After 30 years in production, the once-ubiquitous Walkman cassette tape player is going the way of the dinosaur and floppy disks-at least in Japan, according to manufacturer Sony. The company said its ...

It's been over 20 years since Sony released a cassette player, and cassette sales are so minuscule they barely show up on ...