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Retail landlords and merchants have a symbiotic relationship: For the former to thrive, the latter need to perform reasonably well. So it comes as no surprise that the struggles of apparel chains like J. Crew or San Francisco's Gap are hurting shopping centers across the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

From a technical standpoint, the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift are the two best virtual reality headsets on the market. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jordan Lynn wanted to buy a big-screen TV. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For thousands of video game developers gathering this week in San Francisco, virtual reality finally seems ready to cast off decades of unfulfilled promise. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Twenty years ago Wednesday, the original Sony PlayStation hit shelves in North America as the "game machine to beat," according to The Chronicle's prescient review. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As an attorney, Michael Price is used to reading fine print. But even he was surprised when he plugged in his new smart TV and saw a 46-page privacy policy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony jumped into the online television game in a big way Wednesday, launching a PlayStation subscription service that is the first of its kind to include local TV and sports broadcasts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Virtual reality games are a few steps closer to reality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

“We will respond proportionally, and we’ll respond in a place and time and manner that we choose.” [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It sounds like a movie in the making with all the subplots, intrigue and black humor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony has finally flip-flopped the right way. After caving to demands it pull a lowbrow comedy about killing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the studio is reversing direction and will let theater audiences and home viewers watch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even as thousands of network shows fight for eyeballs, technology companies like Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are flooding the Internet with original programming. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The gaming landscape has changed since the release of the PlayStation 3 seven years ago. Once a living room pastime, gaming shifted to mobile platforms, thanks to powerful smartphones and tablets. Sony hopes that with the PlayStation 4, gamers are willing to reinvest in graphic-rich consoles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony said Tuesday that the new PlayStation 4 will go on sale in North America on Nov. 15 and that owners will be able to broadcast their games live on Twitch, the increasingly popular online service video gamers use to watch other gamers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The online sentiments seemed to favor Sony this week, but the long lines of E3 attendees waiting to get their hands on new games on the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One and the Wii U suggested that the ultimate verdict on next-generation home consoles is far from being delivered. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The online sentiments seemed to favor Sony this week, but the long lines of E3 attendees waiting to get their hands on new games on the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One and the Wii U suggested that the ultimate verdict on next-generation home consoles is far from being delivered. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the arena of gaming's biggest annual event, Sony landed a solid counterpunch on Microsoft by announcing its next-generation PlayStation 4 game console would not only cost $100 cheaper than the rival Xbox, but would come without restrictions for used games. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

- Ferris Bueller [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On Wednesday afternoon, I found myself in a heavy leather racing suit on the back of a motorcycle zipping around Sonoma Raceway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony's newest hardware offering will be an updated take on a very old medium: the book. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Federal Trade Commission issued a report Thursday warning that smart-phone apps can invade children's privacy, easily capturing their location, phone number, contacts, call logs and more. Then again, the tech headlines of the last week have warned that the same is true of pretty much everyone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The opening of Apple's App Store marked a seminal moment of the smart-phone age, unleashing a wave of creativity and innovation that no single company could have ever thought up or pulled off. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In late 2010, a team of Eastern European hackers began attacking the website of a Fortune 100 company. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Hacktivism" is fast becoming the new normal of social protests, an information-age reality likely to continually trip up local government agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nintendo unveiled its next home entertainment system Tuesday, a combined console and tablet controller that the company hopes will recapture the success of its best-selling Wii. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As consumers flock to video games on new platforms, Sony and Nintendo will debut gaming hardware this week aimed at winning them back. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony and Epsilon have done their level best to destroy the public's already shaky confidence in corporate handling of consumer data. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the Game Developers Conference opens today at Moscone Center, visitors will find the usual heavy presences from industry giants like Nintendo and Sony. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Playing off the success of "Avatar" and other movies, Nintendo and Sony are incorporating 3-D technology into their gaming hardware, but with approaches that are sizably different. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pandigital Inc., a Dublin firm known for making digital photo frames, jumps into the e-reader market today with a device positioned somewhere between the Kindle and the iPad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Google Inc. is widely expected to update its mobile, television and communications initiatives at an annual developer conference beginning in San Francisco today, underscoring the Web giant's efforts to move beyond its core online business. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony said its motion gaming answer to the Nintendo Wii will be called PlayStation Move, a setup that will bring one-to-one motion control using a PlayStation Eye accessory and new controllers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The plot to Heavy Rain - a serial killer sets in motion a tense drama - may not sound that different compared with other offerings at the local theater. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When it comes to high-performance computing, Sony's PlayStation 3 is not all fun and games. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Author Jeff Vande Zande was pleased when his latest book reached a digital milestone - it "went Kindle," formatted as an electronic book for Amazon.com's portable e-reader. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony and Netflix are getting together to bring streaming movies to Sony's 9 million PlayStation 3s in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bay Area became the cradle of the electronic book market when two companies introduced their first handheld e-readers back in the mid-1990s. But it wasn't until this week that the market those long-forgotten companies envisioned for e-books has learned to run. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nintendo's rivals are prepping for a major battle next year when they plan to take the motion control fight to the Wii. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Social-networking firm MySpace said Wednesday it will buy iLike, a music recommendation service that also happens to be the most popular music application used by members of rival Facebook. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since its premiere in late 2007, Amazon's Kindle has been almost synonymous with e-readers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A day after Microsoft announced a 3-D camera for the Xbox 360 gaming console, Sony on Tuesday unveiled a motion control system for the PlayStation 3 that also uses a camera and similarly takes aim at the Nintendo Wii's inventive motion controllers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony billed 2008 as the Year of the PlayStation 3, but it didn't quite turn out that way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony is closing its PlayStation and Style stores in the Metreon, ending the company's involvement with the San Francisco entertainment and retail complex it built 10 years ago and more recently sold to developers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PlayStation Home, Sony's long-talked-about virtual world component to its PlayStation Network, goes into public beta Friday, delivering what Sony believes to be an online social gaming experience unlike anything gamers are used to. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Microsoft is re-releasing its Xbox Live online gaming service today in a bid to broaden the Xbox 360 console's appeal and stay ahead of rival Sony, which has closed the gap with improvements to its PlayStation Network. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nintendo is readying the latest installment in its popular Wii gaming series for release this holiday season: Wii Music, which allows users to play about 60 instruments by mimicking the playing movements with the controllers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The next big thing just got a little smaller. A war between two competing high-definition DVD players ended with Sony whipping Toshiba. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony's PlayStation 3, which had been mired in third place in the U.S. video game console race, broke out of the cellar in January, boosted by the popularity of its Blu-ray DVD player. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]