Less video games, more playing outside. This is what US President Barack Obama asks the parents of the United States, to raise their kids with less gaming and more time to play outside and be active. In his speech addressed to the American Medical Association, Obama stressed the importance of every person taking charge of their health - stay healthy - to help avoid illness and disease. More after the jump.

With E3 kicking in full blast this week, the non-E3 posts on the iPhone blog fell silent, apart from Knights Onrush and the latest rumor on the new iPhone. Don't worry though, there's gonna be more on the E3 QuickPeek. For now though, the iPhone Weekend Warrior falls short of warriorship and may have to settle for being the weekend squire for this week.

Everybody knows (or at least suspects) that there's a new iPhone model coming out. It's just that nobody knows when it will be released. It looks like Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal does, though. In his review of the new Palm Pre, Mossberg dropped hints regarding the new iPhone not just once, but twice.

Things haven't quite quieted down as far as the Xbox 360 motion-sensing controller is concerned. Now, even the Wall Street Journal has word on Microsoft's crack at the scene, and it's pretty much consistent with all the other stuff we've heard so far - it's a camera and it might be out in E3. More in the full article.

It's been three months since Steve Jobs announced that he will be taking time off till June because of health issues. Since the father of iPod got off his feet to focus on his health, COO Tim Cook took over to see over the day-to-day operations of the company. However, it seems that Jobs just can't keep himself from being on the job. A report from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that Jobs does remain "closely involved" in the key aspects of running the company.

Nintendo is getting ready to roll out a new video streaming service for the Wii this year. The new service may not be limited only to the Wii, however.

Some video game publishers and developers have been quite vocal about their distaste for the used games business. They're missing out on the profits, and when you find out just how much profit it is, you'll want to get in on it too.

Some people describe the Xbox 360 as a watered down version of the PlayStation 3. Those people are more right than they imagined. A new book reveals that the Xbox 360's tech was built around the technology of the PS3's Cell processor.

EA to be bought out? By Disney?! Well, the world's turned upside down anyway, so why not this? The Wall Street Journal speculates that with EA's stock down by 18 percent last Friday, the time could be right for bigger fish who are looking to expand their presence in the gaming market to swallow EA whole.

Is iTunes killing full album sales? That's what a few recording artists think so, as although online music sales continue to rise, overall album sales as well as CD sales in general have steadily dwindled. They're pointing to the now-popular method of freely choosing what particular songs to buy from an album as the reason.