Bloomberg has reported this weekend that Nokia has lost so much value over the past few years that its stock is now worth 50 percent less than if the company was sold and broken up.

At its peak, Nokia was worth $300 billion before Apple and Google introduced their smartphone operating systems but is now worth just over $25 billion.

If you were to separate its mobile, infrastructure equipment, mapping software and accounting businesses, Bloomberg says the company would be worth $39 billion, based on current comparable valuations of patents.

There has been speculation that Microsoft is willing to buy Nokia's mobile phone business, but Nokia has denied the rumors.

Nokia's stock currently trades at $6.65 per share, the lowest it has since 1998.

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One day until Microsoft's E3 keynote, the recurring rumor seems to be that the company will unveil the Xbox Live 'Diamond' TV service.

Codenamed "Orapa," the service will merge Xbox Live with Microsoft's mediaroom IPTV service.

Additionally, the company is expected to better integrate Zune music and video services to the new platform.

The software giant will charge a monthly fee to become a "virtual cable operator" via the Xbox 360.

Although unconfirmed obviously, the TV service is expected to be U.S.-only.

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Nintendo has said today that one of their servers was attacked by hackers but fortunately no personal info was compromised.

Spokesman Ken Toyoda says a Nintendo America server was "accessed unlawfully" two weeks ago, but there was no info taken:

There were no third-party victims. But it is a fact there was some kind of possible hacking attack.

Nintendo says they have no leads as to who was behind the hacking attempt.

The attack follows at least 8 successful hacks of different Sony-based services, leading to 102 million consumers having their data compromised.

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