Nintendo CEO: 3DS Sales Weak in U.S., Europe

From DailyTech: Nintendo's CEO recently mentioned that its handheld 3DS currently isn't doing so hot in the United States and Europe.

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo CEO, recently led the company’s 72nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders where the 3DS portable gaming system was discussed...

Seagate Lowers Revenue Expectations amid Record HDD Unit Shipments

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology on Thursday announced selected preliminary financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, which ended on June 29, 2012. Although the company shipped record amount of hard disk drives during the quarter, it failed to achieve desired fiscal...

Does Sony have a new PlayStation 3 model in the works?

From CNET News.com: Sony might be working on a new version of the PlayStation 3, according to one report.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has published an exhibit on its Web site of what appears to be a new PlayStation 3. Sony requested that the government organization...

Motorola Atrix HD Aims at Business Users

From DailyTech: Motorola has announced a new smartphone called the Atrix HD that is billed as "Business Ready." The smartphone will be offered in white or titanium colors and has a Kevlar fiber micro-weave pattern on the back. The smartphone has a big 4.5-inch HD ColorBoost display...

Amazon Purchases 3D Mapping Company UpNext

From DailyTech: Amazon is apparently looking to enter the maps business, as it recently acquired 3D mapping company UpNext.

UpNext is a New York-based 3D mapping startup that was founded in 2007. It provides interactive three-dimensional maps of 50 cities nationwide, where enhanced...

Qualcomm Contracts Samsung and UMC to Make Snapdragon S4 Products

From X-bit Labs: Qualcomm, the world's largest supplier of processors for mobile devices, has signed supply contracts with Samsung Semiconductors and United Microelectronics Corp. to manufacture Snapdragon S4 system-on-chip devices and application processors as well as baseband chips...

Intel May Slash Core i3 Ivy Bridge Pricing to Popularize Ultrabooks

From X-bit Labs: After numerous attempts to convince PC makers to reduce their profit margins further and use innovative plastic materials to reduce the prices of ultrabooks, Intel Corp. may now be ready to slash the cost of some of its ultra low-voltage microprocessors by a little...

Apple May Launch OS X Mountain Lion on July 25

From PC World: Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25 if it repeats what it did last year when it announced the then-new Lion a day after its quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts.

Monday, Apple scheduled its next earnings call for 2:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 24...

EA exec: We'll be 100 percent digital eventually

From CNET News.com: Electronic Arts is considered a major publisher in the gaming industry. But soon, it might be a major digital publisher in the gaming industry.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in an interview published yesterday, EA Labels President Frank Gibeau said that his...

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