The Sony Walkman was not only a revolutionary device, it was revolutionary on a cultural scale. Until the 1970s, listening to music was considered to be a social activity. Handheld transistor radios ...

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 ...

The biography of Sony founder Akio Morita credits him with the concept of the portable music player, a device better known to Sony customers around the world as the Walkman. But the Japanese consumer ...

Sony is rolling out a fresh addition to its Walkman family, the NW-A306. This new model comes 44 years after Sony released the original Walkman, the TPS-L2, which changed how we listen to music: since ...