Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The cassette tape was created in the 1960s and became a household ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman. It wasn’t my dad’s Walkman, which was adult, boring, and gray. While I can’t quite ...

Portable music changed forever when Sony introduced its groundbreaking cassette player on July 1, 1979, giving millions of ...

The internet is having a retro romance with “the world’s first cassette player with Bluetooth 5.0 capability.” Dubbed “IT’S OK,” the fresh take on the classic tech has already exponentially surpassed ...

IT’s 40 years since Sony released the Walkman — changing the face of music forever. Launched in July 1979, the portable device sold more than 400 million units. The comparative size of a Sony Walkman ...

If you’re looking for new technology with a kick of nostalgia, Sony has your back. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Walkman, Sony is releasing a modern day version based on the classic ...

Cassette players and tapes, vintage Game Boys and boomboxes seem like relics of a bygone era. So why are they being snapped up, sometimes for eye-watering prices? The Guardian’s journalism is ...

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 ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The cassette-playing Walkman is no more after Sony decided to stop manufacturing the ground-breaking device in Japan after more than 30 years. The move comes just months after Sony scrapped production ...

Sony Corporation introduced the Walkman in July of 1979. It went on to sell more than 200 million of the portable cassette players. An entire generation became addicted to headphones and mix tapes.