Speech Processing Solutions' latest edition in the Philips Pocket Memo line, the company’s leading family of professional handheld dictation recorders. The redesigned device comes equipped with ...

After its development, Philips’ audio cassette made its debut at electronics fairs in August 1963. ... “The cassette tape was invented out of irritation about the existing tape recorder, ...

During my career as a freelance radio reporter and foreign correspondent, I started using simple Philips tape cassette recorders. Of course, Philips in my native country, the Netherlands, had invented ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, ... He unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963.

He led development of the company's first portable tape recorder, the EL 3585. The success of that machine prompted Philips to create a portable cassette recorder and design their own cassettes ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips the company where he also helped develop the compact disc ...

If not for a humble tape recorder, one of the most popular songs in history—arguably the greatest rock song ever recorded—may have evaporated in a dream. It's been 50 years since The Rolling ...

Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands village of Duizel this month. He was 94.

Lou Ottens unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963. Billions of cassettes were sold before he spearheaded a team that introduced the compact disc with ...