Walkman
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Sony Ericsson's Infinite Hope for a Turnaround...companies to entirely miss the rapid transition of the market to smartphones. It did well for a while selling CyberShot camera phones and Walkman music phones in Europe and Asia, but it never got much of a foothold in the United States. And... In this article: Sony Ericsson, Nexus, Sony, HTC, Gartner, Motorola, United States, CyberShot, and AT&T |
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CNET News.com | 23 hours ago
Sony planning new online store
...kill Connect. Sony needs a shot in the arm at this point. Though the company pioneered the portable music concept 30 years ago with its Walkman, it has struggled to compete in the Digital Age. Continuing a string of quarterly losses, Sony...
In this article: Sony, Itunes, PlayStation Network, CNET, BusinessWeek, Chrome OS, and Fiscal year
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Sunday Mirror | 1 day ago
Sony wages war on Apple: music, books, movies and app store incoming
...Sony Online Service. Sony plans to make the Sony Online Service tie-in with its consumer electronics brands including the Sony Walkman range and its ebook readers like the Sony Reader Touch Edition. Sony Online Service will resemble the...
In this article: Sony, Apple, Itunes, Sony Walkman, Google Docs, PlayStation Network, YouTube, and PlayStation 3
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Sony hopes online service will build brand loyalty
...a chance to one-up rivals at a time when products are becoming commodities, with prices being the big way to compete. The maker of the Walkman portable player expects a 95 billion yen ($1 billion) loss for the fiscal year through March 2010...
In this article: Sony, Kazuo Hirai, Fiscal year, Tokyo, Samsung Electronics Co., Cyber-shot, Sharp Corp., and Nintendo Co
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Reuters | 1 day ago
UPDATE 3-Sony slides to 4-mth low, plan fails to inspire
...looks like a pretty solid number," he said. GLORIOUS PAST The company pioneered the mobile music market 30 years ago with its Walkman and once ruled the global television industry in the era of box TVs, but it is now struggling to...
In this article: Sony, PlayStation 3, Seoul, Revenue, Blu-ray, Kazuo Hirai, and IPod
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Sony pushes back profit margin target to 2013
...for the first time since its release in late 2006. PIONEER NO LONGER Sony pioneered the mobile music market 30 years ago with its Walkman and once ruled the global television industry in the era of box TVs, but it is now struggling to...
In this article: Sony Corp, Lithium, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, and IPod
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Sony chief executive outlines turnaround plan
...for the Japanese electronics and entertainment company is coming up with a blockbuster equivalent of the iconic portable Walkman player that was a hit in Sony's 1980s heyday. Tokyo-based Sony has fallen behind amid intensifying global...
In this article: Sony Corp, Fiscal year, Tokyo, Nintendo Co, IPod, PlayStation, Wii, and PlayStation 3
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thumb|right|Sony Walkman Official Logo (2000 — present)
Walkman is Sony's portable audio cassette player brand, now used to market its portable audio and video players. The original Walkman introduced a change in music listening habits, allowing people to carry music with them.
The device was built in 1978 by audio division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent transpacific plane trips. The original Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan, the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and the Stowaway in the UK. Morita hated the name "Walkman" and asked it to be changed, but relented after being told by junior
executives that a promotion campaign had already begun using the 'Walkman' name and would be too expensive to change.
The names "Walkman", "Pressman", "Watchman", "Scoopman", "Discman", and "Talkman" are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company. Sony continues to use the "Walkman" brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the "Discman" name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s. According to Sony, the plural form is "Walkman Personal Stereos", rather than "Walkmans" or "Walkmen" (presumably to preserve their trademark on "Walkman").
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