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Happy Birthday, Sony Walkman

Andy Jordan, Editor and Producer, Tech Diary, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 2, 2009 at 8:27 am PT

Break out that mixtape. You know, the one with “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “Thriller.” It’s the Sony Walkman’s 30th birthday. And it got a present. Kind of. The modern Sony Walkman digital music player beat out Apple’s iPod share of the portable music player market in Japan in the last week of August, according to a study by BCN, a Japanese electronics research firm.