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Comdex: Diamond to rule home networking?
News The company, which recently won the right to ship its controversial RIO MP3 walkman device, already has a wireless home networking product, Home Free, and is in the final stages of development with its HomePNA (Phone Network Architecture) which it...
[November 17, 1998, 17:42]
A Year Ago: The arrival of MP3
News The MP3 walkman device from Diamond Multimedia may be just another gadget for playing music but its arrival has prompted a definitive statement from experts about the future of music retailers: "Adapt or perish.
[September 15, 1999, 7:00]
News Burst: IBM debuts wearable PC
News The 233MHz Pentium-class computer resides in two Walkman-sized cases that clip onto the belt, uses an eyepiece for a monitor, and "understands" verbal commands. PC industry giant IBM unveiled an ultra-portable PC at its IBM Fair '98 this week.
[September 18, 1998, 10:01]
Makers of MP3 players distance themselves from Napster
News It looks like a smaller version of the Sony Walkman and holds MP3s on a flash-memory card that can be reused. Instead of touting the Walkman-like MP3 player as the easiest way to transport digital music files downloaded from Napster and other...
[February 13, 2001, 11:00]
Nuggets: Sony goes MP3 crazy
News Fresh from the launch of its Memory Stick Walkman, the company took the opportunity of Comdex to launch its second digital portable music player. Having taken its time to come to terms with the online musical revolution, Sony is now embracing it...
[November 17, 1999, 11:58]
Nuggets: MP3 player for £109.95!
News Fret not, the jazPiper is here and while this latest MP3 walkman-type-thingy doesn't really have anything special to offer this new market, it certainly is reasonably priced. It's portable it plays MP3 and it's over here!
[May 17, 1999, 9:18]
Nuggets: Whopping memory for MP3 Elite
News OK so there's an MP3 player announced every single week -- or so it seems - and they are all pretty much of a muchness (except of course if you're visiting Sony who'll tell you its MP3 walkman, er Stickman, is the only SDMI compliant device...
[November 17, 1999, 8:14]
Can Apple keep control of the iPod?
News The iPod is, after all, only an MP3 player -- but it's already been touted as "Apple's way of distracting the world from Microsoft's Windows XP launch" as well as "the most amazing launch of any product since the Walkman" and "Only Apple could...
[October 24, 2001, 11:48]
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.
[January 10, 2006, 1:42]
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]
News Schmooze: Chips learn to communicate
News For example, new memory technologies that use photons, nanometres and very tiny magical fairies to be able to store the contents of the British Library in your Walkman. Intel unveiled a good number of new products and initiatives this week at its...
[March 1, 2002, 16:36]
Soundbug turns flat surfaces into speakers
News The Soundbug can be plugged into the headphone socket of, for example, an MP3 player or a walkman, and then fixed by suction to the flat surface -- effectively turning a desk or window into a speaker.
[March 14, 2002, 12:25]
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]
News Burst: Music industry lambasts Philips
News Last week the IFPI added its support to a lawsuit against Diamond Multimedia from the Recording Industry Association of America accusing Diamond of violating copyright regulations with its forthcoming Rio MP3 walkman.
[October 23, 1998, 16:05]
News Burst: Rio hits UK stores this week
News The Walkman-like devises will be on sale from UK outlets such as Dixons from the middle of this week. The lightweight player, which is about the size of a cigarette packet,is set to shake-up the music industry.
[December 7, 1998, 15:48]
HiFi WAV Recorder Joiner
Downloads HiFi WAV Reocrder Joiner- is a All-in-one wav recorder, wav joiner, ID3-Editor and audio player software.With it you can makes high-quality recordings directly from your sound card.record your own voice by microphone and the audio from your...
[February 20, 2007, 16:37]
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...
[December 1, 2004, 21:21]
A Year Ago: Diamond free to roll out Rio
News In mid-September, Diamond announced the Rio PMP300 -- a Walkman-sized device that can hold up to an hour of music in a compressed audio format known as MPEG-1 Layer 3, or just MP3. In a decision that could change the face of the music industry...
[October 27, 1999, 6:45]
US Report: Diamond free to roll out Rio
News In mid-September, Diamond (Nasdaq:DIMD) announced the Rio PMP300 -- a Walkman-sized device that can hold up to an hour of music in a compressed audio format known as MPEG-1 Layer 3, or just MP3. In a decision that could change the face of the music...
[October 27, 1998, 11:00]
Sony Ericsson's top US exec to step down
News Sony Ericsson has had some success in the US with its Cybershot and Walkman phones, but has not come up with a major breakthrough in the US, and continues to emphasise the entertainment capabilities of its lower-end feature phones through carriers...
[March 24, 2009, 8:02]
