First they take away my Zima, now this: Sony has pressed the eject button on the Walkman, discontinuing production of the AM/FM cassette player after 31 years. It’s bad enough that John Hughes is dead ...

There could be rare vintage treasure hiding in your grandparents' attic. It's not a porcelain figurine or a treasure map, like in "The Goonies." In fact, it's several years older than that iconic '80s ...

It’s a sad day for those who love the tactile feedback of a chunky Walkman. After being on the market for 31 years, Sony has officially put the cassette-model Walkman on ice. It might come as a ...

At least it outlived disco. By today's standards, the Walkman was clunky. The plastic tape player required frequent replacing of two AA batteries. There was no shuffle. There was no storage to speak ...

BERLIN--Sony Electronics, trying to advance its music players into the modern age of digital devices, showed a prototype today of a new Walkman based on Google's Android operating system--and CNET got ...

Remembering the Debut of the WalkmanApple Computer announced Monday that it has now sold 100 million iPods. To mark this milestone, we dipped into the archives to present a story that aired 26 years ...

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 ...

Sony will stop manufacturing of the Walkman in Japan, the company announced after 30 years of building the portable cassette players. This move will render the product mostly unavailable in US markets ...

Sony has finally decided to press "stop" on the production of its Walkman cassette player, acknowledging its irrelevance in a changing market. Though the company has sold 200 million of the iconic ...

SOON AFTER its 1979 launch, Sony’s Walkman was already seen as much more than a trendy audio player. Crucially, it became an escape hatch. Whenever I cradled my Walkman as a kid, it transported me to ...

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 ...

Somewhere along the way, though, it became a less personal experience as I succumbed to the algorithm and listened to whatever Spotify thought I might like rather than seeking out new music on my own.