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The road to obscurity
The MiniDisc - launched by Sony in 1992 as a micro alternative to CDs and cassette tapes - occupies a slightly different category. Much loved by its In fact, the first MP3 players had been launched by then, and the debut of the iPod in 2001 changed ...
Can Sony recapture the magic of the original Walkman?
Sony continued the Walkman brand through various iterations of audio technology. From the original cassette model in 1979, the Walkman brand later encompassed Digital Audio Tape (DAT) players, CD players, Minidisc (proprietary Sony digital format), and ...
iTunes 'sounds so small' to punk rock founding father Marky Ramone
If there's one band that can lay claim to fashioning a music genre, it would have to be the Ramones. Fusing the pure adrenaline rush of rock, garage, and metal to create the sound that we call punk rock, four scruffy lads in leather jackets and ripped ...
Survey shows most Britons haven't sent a thank you letter in years
Results showed the average person hadn't hand-written a letter for 19 months, hadn't sent a postcard in nearly two years or even hand-written a thank you for 20 months. Other sentimental acts are also fading - one in four has never made a CD for ...
Steve Brookstein, The X Factor's first winner: 'Simon Cowell is irrelevant'
“TV always seemed to come before performing music,” is a recurrent grievance, and even after he'd won, his first thought the following morning when the alarm clock went off at dawn was: “I wasn't happy. I couldn't imagine a footballer doing GMTV the ...
Intel: 'Taping a cellphone to your wrist is not what I'd call a wearable'
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the Apple smartwatch at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California Apple's forthcoming entry into the market with its Apple Watch 'legitimised smartwatches'. Photograph: ZUMA/REX/ZUMA/REX. Stuart Dredge · @stuartdredge....
CES 2015 live: the latest from Las Vegas gadget show
I think I've seen this somewhere before in an old-fashioned thing they used to call a "clock radio". If you're listening to music on your way home, your stereo will continue playing the same audio when you get in the door and remove your headphones ...
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