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This article was written on January 01, 2008 by CyberNet.

–May 2007–

May of 2007 was about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Facebook. Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates made a rare appearance together on the same stage as part of the D Conference. Their chat with Walt Mosberg and Kara Swisher was interesting to say the least, and the conversation included the mentioning of those Mac vs. PC commercials where Jobs said that the point of them was for Mac and PC’s to like each other. Riiiiight… Have you concluded that all of those commercials have been about Mac’s and PC’s liking each other? I haven’t. Microsoft came up with a way to poke back at Apple like Apple has done with the “Get a Mac” campaign by putting a big bin in the Zune Headquarters building with a sign that said “iPod Amnesty Bin – Bite me!” Oh, and not to forget Facebook, this was the month that they launched Facebook Platform which they called the “Internet’s Social Operating System.”

Jobs and Gates together again…

• Gates and Jobs Together Again
• Microsoft Says “Bite Me” to the iPod

Facebook

• Facebook Platform Launches as the Internet’s “Social Operating System”

–June 2007–

I think it’s safe to say the June 2007 will be known as the month of the iPhone. It launched on June 29th, so the whole month was all about iPhone hype! While the iPhone managed to hog the spotlight, Google managed to steal it away momentarily on three different occasions when they made three acquisitions.

Month of the iPhone…

• 3,000,000 iPhones to Ship for June 29th Launch
• AT&T Gears Up for iPhone by Hiring 2,000 Extra Employees
• Apple Boasts 8 Hours Talk-Time with iPhone
• Video of iPhone Settings and Ringtones
• Official Service-Plan Pricing from Apple and AT&T
• iPhone Reviewer Says Internet “Excruciatingly Slow”
• Pre-Launch Day iPhone News Round-Up
• Happy iPhone Launch Day
• iPhone Launch Day News Round-Up

Google Acquisitions…

• Google Adds PeakStream to List of Acquisitions
• Google’s Acquisition De Jour: GrandCentral
• Add Zenter to the List of Google Acquisitions

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Looxcie, the ear-mounted, sci-fi styled video-camera now works with your iPhone. The Bluetooth camera is like a Tivo for your real life. When running, it is constantly filming. When something happens that you might want to keep, you hit a button and the last 30 seconds of video are dumped into your iPhone.

The only problem is the quality, a rather poor 480×320 at just 15fps. This is no Canon 5D MkII. But that’s hardly the point. The idea is that you don’t have to sit back and observe. You can join in the action and shoot clips after they happen.

The companion app, which first cam to Android, can be grabbed at the App Store. With it you can view the live video streamed from the Looxcie, and organize, edit and upload clips. This is the part we like the most: why carry yet another screen around when you already have a perfectly good one. The Looxcie also doubles as a Bluetooth headset, although really you should never use one of those anyway.

The app is designed for the small-screen of the iPhone, but you can also use, pixel-doubled, on the iPad. That makes this one way to add a camera to Apple’s tablet.

The app is free, on Android and iOS, and so it should be: the camera itself is a crazy $200.

Looxcie product page [Looxcie]

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PhoneSuit’s no stranger to the reload-and-refuel arena, and just months after ushering out the Primo Battery Cube, along comes this: the Primo Power Core. For all intents and purposes, this is an iPhone-sized battery pack, and it just so happens to be fully capable of charging your iPhone or iPod touch. Unlike the vast majority of alternatives, however, this 8200mAh pack can also rejuvenate an iPad, not to mention a wealth of Android smartphones, your mom’s BlackBerry, a couple of unnamed netbooks (yeah, seriously!) and practically any other handheld gadget that can be juiced via USB. The company throws in a cornucopia of tips for a range of “popular” devices, though high-drain devices like netbooks will need to make use of the 12V port. There’s an external LED charge meter to keep you abreast of how much power remains, and it can be headed to a stocking near you in exchange for $99.95.

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Attention iPhone owners: we have found possibly one of the coolest gifts under $25 for you. If you’ve ever strained to hear the sound on a YouTube video, or have ever tried to jam out to your tunes via your iPhone’s included speaker, you know how hard it can be to really get good audio. The Bone Horn Stand uses design elements from gramophones of the past, and brings a simple concept to the age of the iPhone. Simply stick your iPhone into the stand, and voila — the sound is automatically louder by 13 decibels.

The Bone Horn is made out of silicone — and that’s it. There are no batteries needed, and no adapters to plug in. It’s simply the trumpet-shape of the horn that amplifies the sound from your phone. Science!

Besides working as a way to boost your volume, the Bone Horn also acts as stand. You can prop your phone into a vertical or horizontal position.

The Bone Horn Stand fits the original iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS, the iPhone 4. It comes in beige, black, and green, and sells for $24.95 at the Cyberguys.com.

Imagine the possibilities if you used the Bone Horn with the Pocket Vuvuzela iPhone app.

Check out the video after the jump to see the Horn Stand in action — well, sort of.

The iFlash not a battery-sucking, CPU-choking browser plugin. Instead, it’s an LED lamp that plugs into the dock-connector of any iPhone or iPod and provides a “flash” for your photos.

It’s self-powered, so you won’t drain your battery, and you’ll have to switch it on and off manually, making the dock-connector little more than a mounting point for the light. And that’s not the only hole it will fill on the iPhone: a little plastic jack-plug will let you dangle the dongle from the iPhone’s headphone socket when not in use.

I’d probably avoid this particular gadget, though. If you’re going to add light to your photos, why go to all the bother of buying an expensive light and then just stick the thing right near the lens, where it will give you the same harsh shadows you get from any light so close to the lens. It’s like buying an SB900 strobe for your Nikon and then sitting it in the camera’s hot-shoe. No, better to just take the $40 this widget will cost you and buy a decent LED flashlight.

iFlash Product Page [Gadgets and Gear via Oh Gizmo]

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