Personal Audio News

Everyone said the room, with its lobster bisque walls and soft brown leather chairs, looked like Imogene.

MANSFIELD -- The last case in this year's Brighten a Christmas community effort is a couple and their son caught in an all-too-common bind: a medical issue and no job.

Condemned killer Kenneth Biros this morning gave his personal belongings -- seven CDs, an address book, a portable CD player, a rosary and a notebook to his sister Cheri Biros and brother Kerry Biros.

The Melloman is a keyboard that uses a different tape loop for each key . The instrument is generally known as a Mellotron , and consists of a different looping tape for each key.

With a portable CD player, an amplifier and a microphone, Bryan Clardy, a.k.a. "BC," takes the stage on a quiet evening at the Bunker in Ybor.

Good news for folks who are rocking Sony's NXZ-X1050 and X1060 Walkmans as the v1.10 software update is said to give you an improvement on the NetFront browser.

Let your old music be new music to the ears and hearts of those in need of healing this holiday season.

Donate new or gently used CDs and portable CD players and we, at no fee, will then distribute them to hospitals and health care facilities in hopes of building CD libraries so patients may check music in and out.

My colleague, Mark Bialczak has an item about a Music Heals CNY drive to collect gently-used music CDs and/or portable CD players.

Way back in my day, I was excited just to have the anti-skip technology on my Walkman CD player.

Click a picture to enter the Design Review slideshow. It's not easy for Sony. For decades, Sony's Walkman devices dominated the personal audio market with great and popular products.

Portability in a very small package has finally arrived to the growing selection of HD Radio receivers.

If you are considering buying an electronic gift for a teen in your life this Christmas, this list is for you! Most teens are green with envy when they see their friends with the latest new electronic gadget or digital gizmo.

I've gotta hand it to SanDisk. The company doesn't shy away from honesty. Recently, a handful of Sansa Clip users reactivated a forum topic having to do with apparent pitch issues on the device whereby music plays back ever-so-slightly slower than normal.

How is this for sending the right message? Canada's big electronics retailer, now owned by Best Buy, sells a replacement plan that tells customers NOT to repair.

Sony NWZ-W202 Walkman is an inspiring 2GB MP3 player/earphone combo, that Sony has come out with in its personal audio line.

From death comes life, and from life comes death. This cycle can be found in biology, religion, physics and even economics.

Angela Williams ultimate goal is to inspire students to love reading. The Richlands Primary School first grade teacher is seeing results in her students through her "I Hear You" project.

It was a sad day when I reviewed the second-gen Sony S-Series Walkman . We expected a worthy successor to this fantastic MP3 player and instead were met with a mere shadow of the device and its former glory.

Sony goes back to its roots: After trying to copy Apple's touch screen, Sony has gone back to basics with the latest addition to the A-Series Walkman line, the NW-A840 series.