CeBIT, the world's largest technology and communications trade show, is taking its lumps. Attendance at the Hannover, Germany, extravaganza this year is down, and the talk is all gloom and doom. But that hasn't stopped the innovation. Witness the cigar-style pen from Sony Ericsson that sports a digital camera and a radio transmitter, the grapefruit-shaped mobile device from Hitachi that you tilt to access e-mail and movie clips, and the tiny phone from Nokia that comes with a color screen and an AM/FM radio. Still, we may need more than flashy gizmos to light a spark under the tech sector. --Steve Fox, editorial director, CNET.com

Based on search data from March 12 to March 19

This week's gainers
1.	CeBIT:	The largest technology and communications trade show on Earth is looking like a bust. Amid foundering attendance and downbeat sales reports from powerhouses Nokia and Lucent, this German trade fair proves that the tech slump is truly global.
2.	Mozilla:	The open-source browser project that props up Netscape made news with the release of Mozilla 0.9.9. At this rate, we can expect version 1.0 in 2006.
3.	Cheating-Death:	Death and taxes are supposed to be inevitable. But gamers who like to swindle their way through first-person shooter Half-Life gained a reprieve last week when the Cheating-Death site, which renders cheats ineffective, went down for a few days. Wonder if anyone's working on a Cheating-IRS site?
4.	Mira:	Microsoft has signed up a gaggle of consumer electronics powerhouses to build the Mira, its wireless Web tablet. Microsoft brags that Mira will do for the PC what cordless did for the telephone. Great: that means they've designed a Web tablet guaranteed to get lost under the sofa cushions.
5.	Linux:	A just-discovered bug leaves Linux (and other operating systems that make use of some open-source code) vulnerable to hack attacks. Could be open season on open source.
6.	Flash:	Just like a Flash intro that keeps reloading, Macromedia's upgrade to its Web-building app pops up on our Buzz Meter for the second week in a row. Where's the Skip Intro button when you need it?
7.	ZoneAlarm Pro:	Skittish users are looking toward newly released firewall ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 to protect them from evildoers. But who'll protect them from the software itself, which has some users screaming about bugs lurking within its (fire)walls?
8.	Netscape:	The cold war between Microsoft and Netscape is hot again, as AOL considers replacing Internet Explorer with a version of the Netscape browser. Insiders have been expecting this switchover ever since AOL acquired Netscape. But the Microsoft embrace can be hard to break, even for a multibillion-dollar conglomerate.
9.	Internet Explorer:	Microsoft's browser may be AOL's spurned bride (see No. 8) if AOL goes with hometown sweetheart Netscape as its browser of choice. But that's not IE's only problem: the browser reportedly uses some compromised open-source code (see No. 5) that may leave it open to attack.
10.	Xbox:	The Xbox went on sale CeBIT last week, and 90 percent of buyers planned to play hooky from work to test-drive their new purchases. Sounds like someone should develop an Xbox game called You're Unemployed.
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