Technology

EA getting into the fitness game NEW YORK (AP) -- Following in the footsteps of Nintendo's popular "Wii Fit," the video game publisher known for the "Madden" football games is jumping into fitness software targeted mostly at women. Electronic Arts Inc....  Read Story.

'Guitar Hero,' 'Rock Band' fight it out By LOU KESTEN Associated Press As one historic duel -- the presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain -- ends, another is heating up. The stakes are high: nothing less than the soul of rock 'n roll. The...  Read Story.

What will Google come up with next? When I was in college, there was a guy on our floor who refused to wake up. He'd slap off his alarm clock and snore through nearly every 7:40 a.m. session of Econ 51. He'd spend the rest of his day complaining how his...  Read Story.

Amazon tries to take window shopping online NEW YORK (AP) -- Shopping online can be great for bargain hunting, but it's not usually thought of as a feast for the senses. A new Amazon.com Inc. site is trying to change this, though, by showcasing some...  Read Story.

'Fallout 3': It's da bomb By LOU KESTEN Associated Press For a few weeks now, sensitive riders of Washington's Metro system have been rattled by images of the city in ruins. The Capitol dome has a big chunk taken out of it; the Washington Monument...  Read Story.

New MacBook puts style over affordability By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK -- Plastic used to be the sexy material of the future. Now, it's the cheap, ugly material of the past. Just look at the effort Apple Inc. put into getting rid of...  Read Story.

Searching for a Holy Grail in age of battery overload Pardon this space while I go on a rant, but I hope you can relate. Batteries are getting worse. I mean, in the space of a week or two the batteries in my iPod, my wireless mouse, a smoke detector, my...  Read Story.

New software to prevent cell phone use while driving Confronted with the problem of cell-phone talking drivers smashing into things -- and each other -- states around the country and countries around the world have enacted laws that limited talking while...  Read Story.

Sony brings visual add-on to PlayStation 3 ATLANTA (AP) -- Sony Corp.'s U.S. video game division is adding a slick visual program to the PlayStation 3 game system that delivers news headlines, weather reports and webcam views from around the globe. The...  Read Story.

Tips on keeping your e-mail from getting hacked The tens of millions of people who use Web-based e-mail clients probably sweated some bullets last week when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was compromised and its contents leaked onto the...  Read Story.

Yahoo tests new design for home page By JOSEPH TARTAKOFF jtartakoff@sfchronicle.com Yahoo has started testing a new design for its home page on randomly selected users as part of a company-wide strategy to emphasize third-party content on its sites. The...  Read Story.

MySpace has a new music platform MySpace is making a case to be the No. 1 online destination for music. On Thursday, the social networking site unveiled its highly anticipated new "MySpace Music" service, a joint venture with the four big labels: EMI...  Read Story.

'Rock Band 2' rocks, 'NHL 09' scores By CHRIS CAMPBELL game--on--games@mac.com "Rock Band 2" Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PS2. Genre: Party. Publisher: MTV. Games ESRB Rating: T, for Teen. Grade: 4.5 stars (out of 5). I love me some "Guitar...  Read Story.

Web traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007 NEW YORK (AP) -- International Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm said Wednesday. The...  Read Story.

You don't need to be tech-savvy to sign up for Facebook. If you can type and have an e-mail account, you're in. Go to facebook.com. The sign-up box will be right on the home page. Fill out your name. Type in your e-mail address. Think of a...  Read Story.

Facebook adds some new wrinkles By JILL ROSEN The Baltimore Sun Are you on Facebook? No? You're not? 'Cause you're too old? Now that's just silly. Two years ago, the social media website changed from college students-only to something anyone could join...  Read Story.

Which of the new browsers will survive? Time was when you wanted to browse the Web there was no real choice what tool you'd use to do it. Netscape was the only real game in town. It was small, it was fun and it was free. I just found a floppy disk the...  Read Story.

Help File By ROB PEGORARO The Washington Post Q: The software for my camera, a Canon PowerShot SD750, seems incompatible with Windows Vista. When I plug the camera into the computer, nothing happens. A: The mistake here was to install any driver...  Read Story.

Disney's 'Club Penguin Times' By DAWN C. CHMIELEWSKI Los Angeles Times The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times. The Club...  Read Story.

New keypad and updated portable unit for PS3 NEW YORK (AP) -- For PlayStation 3 fans who want to do more than mash buttons when playing games on the console, Sony Corp. is introducing a wireless keypad that can be attached to the system's controller for...  Read Story.