Personal Audio News

Despite reporting a record 457 billion annual loss last year, Sony Corp. earlier this month said it would return to the black in fiscal 2012 with a 30 billion profit.

Sony introduced the world's first portable CD player, the D-5, in late 1984, just a year after its first home player, the CDP-101, revolutionized the audio market.

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In the 80's it was boom boxes, in the 90's it was portable CD players, and now it's the iPhone we're honestly not sure if electronics are getting smaller or humans are actually getting larger.

Who can remember the times when one carries boomboxes around? Those who lived through the era of the Sony Walkman - and I am talking about the cassette based Walkmans here, and none of the MP3 nonsense that this modern generation are used to.