Word: walkmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punctuate my sentences with "whatever!" Discontent over bra size is an all-too-frequent topic of discussion among my girlfriends. The mall is one of my favorite escapes. The last movie I saw was Adam Sandler's Waterboy, an adolescent masterpiece. Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" resides permanently in my Walkman. The lives and hairstyles of Dawson and Joey and the Salinger five are still frequent topics of conversation. How much has really changed since my years at Tilden Middle School? My wardrobe may have acquired some business suits but when I go home for holidays, I still have a very...
...this opening-up-your-PC hurdle seems insurmountable, I recommend Dazzle Multimedia's Digital Video Creator ($249), a Walkman-size device that attaches externally. It doesn't have the extras of the Marvel (graphics card, TV tuner), and it uses the MPEG standard of compression, which delivers half the resolution of the MJPEG. Still, some people may prefer MPEG, since it consumes far less storage space...
...moved, I went out and bought her a Sony Walkman and tapes of Tchaikovsky and Michael Jackson, Counter recalls...
...billion company, which by the way is America's most respected brand, according to a Harris poll. Strategically, Sony is taking the plunge into the digital, wired world. It had little choice. Sony got rich and famous by building a series of great gadgets--the transistor radio, the Walkman, Trinitrons--that took advantage of unique technical advances, like those in miniaturization. Although Sony still makes a ton of money on Walkmans, its competitive edge in such stand-alone products is fading in a world where music and video are increasingly being rendered in the digital language of computers. So Sony...
...professor, Idei is a Sony lifer who started in 1960, straight out of Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. Waves of surprise rippled through the company when Idei was tapped for the top job in April 1995. He leapfrogged a dozen more senior managers, accomplished executives with nicknames like "Mr. Walkman," "Mr. Semiconductor" and "Mr. Camcorder," for their roles in Sony's engineering triumphs. Idei was quite different. He studied European history in college. He's fluent in French and English, and held a number of marketing jobs in Europe and Japan...