Walkman
The Walkman became one of the most successful audio products of the postwar period, and like the Victrola before it, any personal portable cassette player was called a "walkman,"...
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Walkman
When audiocassette s replaced eight-track tapes as the preferred tape format of consumers in the 1970s, small cassette recorders with built-in speakers (and poor monophonic audio quality) were...
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Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats.The moves w...
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Sony Ericsson unveiled eight phones Tuesday aimed at helping the world's fourth-biggest mobile phone maker boost its market share in emerging and developed markets.The company, a joint venture betw...
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Berlin (dpa) - The IFA consumer-electronics show was set to open
in Berlin on Friday with battles continuing among manufacturers over
digital standards for different recordi...
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Sony Ericsson, the world's fourth-largest mobile phone maker, saw growing profits and market share in the second quarter but said the average selling price of its handsets continued to fall.The joi...
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB said Thursday that its third-quarter profit slipped as it sold more lower-priced phones.The company, a joint venture founded in 2001 by Tel...
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Despite a "dodgy" U.S. economy, holiday sales of electronics remain strong, Sony Corp.'s top executive said Tuesday as he reiterated the company's fiscal targets."It's a shaky economy in the U.S., ...
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said Wednesday its net profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter, as record sales of its music and camera handsets helped it gain market shares.The company sai...
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Sony will lose about 50 billion yen ($413 million) in its video games business this fiscal year, and recovery won't come until the arrival of more games to play on the PlayStation 3 machine, a comp...
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The chief architect of Sony's PlayStation game console stepped down Tuesday as the Japanese company struggles to defend its dominance in the video game industry and revive its reputation as an elec...
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Does that Walkman walk no more, or is the original PlayStation now a doorstop? Starting next month, Sony Corp. will take them back at 75 recycling stations around the country.The electronics and en...
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