Sony celebrated the Walkman's birthday last week by introducing two new portable music players, a Walkman with a 20-GB hard drive, and the Vaio Pocket music player with a 40-GB hard drive, both ...

Sony also has three new NAS-like devices on the way, the M700HD, M500HD and E300HD. Think big(ish) hard drive connected to a pair of speakers that can also play music that’s on the network.

Sony's new ZX2 Walkman costs $1,119.99, and it plays music at a super-high resolution. That means songs on Sony's new Walkman sound more life-like than the typical CD, MP3 or streaming media file ...

Sony’s got a new line of diminutive Walkman-branded DAPs coming out later this month in Japan. Looking like mere USB drives, these E-Series DAPs max out at 4GB, with models also coming in at 2GB ...

Wouldn't it be cool if your ordinary flash drive could work as an MP3 player? That's the idea behind Sony's new E Series Walkman DAPs. They look and feel just like a regular USB drive, only they ...

On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, ... water-resistant Sport Walkmans and even devices with two cassette drives.

Sony unveiled its updated digital Walkman, the NW-ZX2, which promises high-quality audio playback and retails for over $1,100. Sony Unveils $1,100 Digital Walkman ...

Sony’s Walkman, which turns 35 years old on July 1, 2014, went on to sell hundreds of millions of magnetic tape-reeling units, decades before Apple’s iPod ushered in the digital, ...

Thirty five years after its debut, Sony's Walkman is enjoying a little comeback. The new $700 Walkman is aimed at premium buyers, as technological advances help more audio-on-the go users head ...

Before smartphones, iPods or iTunes, there was the Sony Walkman, which went on sale four decades ago. More than 400 million have been sold over the years.

The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them. Photograph from Alamy ...

The Sony Walkman was a cultural revolution, enabling people to play any song, anywhere, anytime --- long before similar freedom existed for movies, e-books, or video games.