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 ...
German inventor Andreas Pavel has just settled a 20 year court battle with Sony over the origins of the Walkman, a device Pavel claimed to have patented in 1977. While Sony has spent the better part ...
The first personal, portable music player hit the market July 1, 1979 — nearly 22 years before Apple introduced the iPod. The handheld cassette player ran on two AA batteries, played cassette tapes ...