Sony's music gadget surpasses Apple's iPod in sales in Japan for the full month of August, coincidentally just ahead of Apple's annual refresh of its music player line. Originally posted at News - Apple

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This is the Sony Walkman NWZ-W252 music player. It’s a 2GB player with space for around 500 tracks. Unlike most MP3 players, the player is built into the headphones and the outward facing case is waterproof.

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Sony's music gadget surpasses Apple's iPod in sales in Japan for the full month of August, coincidentally just ahead of Apple's annual refresh of its music player line.

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A tour of Sony's latest Walkman, with an eye toward understanding the aesthetics and trade-offs of the product's industrial design.

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Sony's music gadget surpasses Apple's iPod in sales in Japan for the full month of August, coincidentally just ahead of Apple's annual refresh of its music player line.

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More than 30 years on, sales of Sony's MP3-playing version of the Walkman topped Apple’s ubiquitous iPod in Japan in August for the first time since BCN began compiling the survey in November 2001.

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Soon the TV you flick on to watch the news before your morning commute may be cinema-screen-sized and 3-D . Innovation, even when your eyes can't take the early-hour strain. 1. Stephen Hawking's new book is due out, and the physics guru has apparently changed his mind about God, according to an extract published in the Times U.K. today. Previously the prof had been ambivalent--physics didn't ...

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In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed Thursday.

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TOKYO - IN A rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed on Thursday. Sony's share of the Japanese market for portable music players stood at 47.8 per cent last month, ahead of Apple which had 44.0 per cent, according to the Tokyo-based marketing research company BCN Inc.

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In a rare victory for Sony over Apple, the Walkman music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey shows.

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