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Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?
Talkback The walkman was a cultural phenomenon. Walkmans became ubiquitous and Sony along with others made a fortune in walkman products ranging from $20-$200. This is the reason why Apple, while garnering a similar flurry of excitement with its ipod...
About: Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?
[January 20, 2004, 6:27]
MPs batter Apple over iPod batteries
Talkback Thing is, I don't want it to buy digital music off the web, but to replace the back-up / take anywhere facility that my old cassette walkman and cassette decks offered, but with digital quality and reduced overall size.
About: MPs batter Apple over iPod batteries
[January 23, 2004, 15:12]
Is Apple driving music to mobiles?
Talkback Cell phones may well over take the iPod (aka 21st century Walkman), but by the time they can hold 40GB of music and all of the cell services are in place to do it, the decade will be over and Apple will have sold the projected 100+ million iPods...
About: Is Apple driving music to mobiles?
[April 21, 2005, 10:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As Wired says, "According to Giesler's preliminary research, the iPod isn't simply an updated Walkman. Unlike the Walkman, the iPod taps into a 'hybrid entertainment matrix', in which functions like random shuffle are a key construct, not just a...
[January 28, 2005, 17:30 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Sony Music changes tune on copy protection
Talkback Only plays on Sony walkman hardware? Extra features? Links to concert tickets? Sounds like annoying ad-ware. Will the links & tickets still work in two years time? Will they work in every country? What next, mandatory ads between the tracks?
About: Sony Music changes tune on copy protection
[November 10, 2003, 22:08]
Sony unveils iPod-like player
Talkback The Network Walkman doesn't play MP3 etc - it requires you to *convert* all other formats and load them on to the thing with SonicStage. This article is factually incorrect. Anyone fancy doing that with 20 gig's worth?
About: Sony unveils iPod-like player
[July 6, 2004, 18:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To a basement events space in Covent Garden -- Nutopia, with fab tropical fish and acres of flat-screen monitors -- for Sony's launch of its Walkman 2002 range. The newest Minidiscs have a USB connection and can download an hour and a half of music...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Microsoft's mangled music manifesto
Blog Comment I think I'll be sticking with my sony walkman and my huge CD collection. How totally Wierd! And when you consider there are so many avenues and alternatives when it comes to digital music and mp3 players.
[January 24, 2009, 3:08 by roger andre]
Anger over DVD format wars
Talkback It's no wonder that iPod, iRiver, and other MP3 players have made the Walkman a fogotten name. This is an ubelievably greedy ploy by Sony to try to introduce proprietary technology, which would force consumers to buy their standard.
About: Anger over DVD format wars
[January 10, 2006, 1:42]
RE: Windows 7: Paint a Lemon and Call it Innovation?
Blog Comment Sony walkman, Fuji finepix, HP printer/scanner, Samsung mobile, a cheaper generic mp3 player all work just fine. Windows 7 hasn't put a foot wrong with me so far. I've installed it on old 512 MB XP hardware that vista would cripple and it just worked.
[May 15, 2009, 9:31 by roger andre]
RE: To netbook or not?
Blog Comment And "Walkman", but that's not quite it. Who, other than the companies selling these products, calls them "low-cost subnotebooks"? I'm more likely to say "cheap little laptop", just like you did. I'm racking my brain to try to think of devices named...
[April 11, 2008, 17:23 by Karen Friar]
Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless
Talkback A Govt Dept database should be on a dedicated network of hardwired machines about as big as a sony walkman with software upgrades supplied in a form similar to a Secure Digital chip. The 'Personal Computer' has no applicability to large network...
About: Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless
[December 1, 2004, 21:21]
Sony to cut 10,000 jobs
Talkback Not since the Walkman has the management had an orginial thought and he is now dead. It is obvious that Stringer was hired only as a hatchet man since the Japanese don't want to be the bad guys. In three to five years when the bleeding has stopped...
About: Sony to cut 10,000 jobs
[September 24, 2005, 14:06]
Handsets World: Show me the money!
Blog We have sold more Walkman phones than Apple has iPods. The first day of Handsets World in Berlin is now over. I'll have a story up tomorrow on Nokia's views on open source (interesting, I reckon) but in the meantime, since the people milling around...
[June 10, 2008, 18:33 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Is Apple on the way out?
Talkback Easy to Use") $400 walkman that everybody wants. God, this guy's an idiot. Apple's business has nothing to do with Linux. Nothing. At all. It has to do with Sony and Microsoft and Virgin Media. And Pepsi and Spin magazine.
About: Is Apple on the way out?
[October 13, 2004, 22:22]
Off Line And Into The Wilds Of Cornwall
Blog Also bringing along a sony MZR mp3 walkman and an FM transmitter. Just a quick note to say goodbye fellow bloggers and readers. My wife and I are off to Cornwall until the weekend, and we've decided not to bring any computers with us.
[December 17, 2008, 7:28 in Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre by roger andre]
Sony Ericsson rethinks, remodels
Blog The Walkman and Cybershot brandings won't be abandoned - just relegated to the “emerging and lower part of the market”. Monday morning in Barcelona. The skies are blue, the mobile industry jargon impenetrable as always.
[February 16, 2009, 7:56 in On The Road by David Meyer]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a lot of hearing impairment among the young and not-so-young as the Walkman Generation starts to work its way through middle age. Wednesday 19/1/2005 Let me warn you against 'detox', the pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo that makers of bottled...
[January 21, 2005, 15:45 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As a Sony devotee myself and owner of many a walkman, Minidisc recorder, shortwave radio and camcorder from the company, it gives me no pleasure to say the company's on a hiding to nothing. Friday 24/09/2004
[September 24, 2004, 18:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
What Sony Ericsson's up to: Part II
Blog It's been in Walkman players for 5 years, apparently. Project Capuchin - Now we're talking. Essentially a blend of Flash and Java, the idea with Capuchin (the SDK came out late August, roundabout the same time as the SDK for the X1) is to help...
[September 25, 2008, 0:25 in News Blog by David Meyer]
