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Premiere gaming peripheral maker Razer has announced a sequel to the Destructor mouse mat, called the Scarab. This one is coated with Razer’s Fractal 2.0 surface coating, meant to create a highly responsive and uniform tracking system that’s perfect for optical and laser mouse sensors. The company has finely-tuned the coating for a balance between speed and control.

Should you want to travel with your gaming gear, Razer is throwing in a lightweight carrying case that it promises is more attractive than the usual free case. The mat lists for $39.99 and will be available December 24 in North America.

So here’s the deal: the UK Meningitis Trust wants to help raise awareness about the disease it’s dedicated to battling and has a 30-strong male voice choir at its disposal to do it with. How does it reach the widest possible audience? If your ideas include namedropping every major social media site set up over the last decade, a nod to the iPhone versus Android dichotomy, and the use of Yahoo as a bad pun, then you must be the guy responsible for putting together the video after the break. Congratulations, it’s awesome. The behind-the-scenes footage with these old crooners isn’t too terrible either.

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After some customers have complained that Amazon’s official non-lighted Kindle Leather cover is causing their devices to lock up and reboot, the company vows to replace any problem covers and have its engineers examine the issue.

This article was written on July 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

About seven months ago we took a look at some of the headlines from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. They’re the real headlines that viewers send in which they find in newspapers across the country. There are so many funny headlines out there that we decided to put together a round two:

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Weekend Website

Google Trends has proved to be a great way to see what’s hot and what’s not in Google searches. There’s a lot you can learn, particularly with their “Hot Trends” which is compiled daily. It’s also proved to be a great way to analyze search trends as I’ve done today with some of the more popular technology competitors. There’s nothing earth shattering about what I’ve found, but it’s interesting to see who comes out on top as far as searches go.

You’ll notice “markers” on the graphs which correlated with a news article. Often times if there are big spikes where these letter markers are located, it tells us that whatever was in the news that day caused the spike in searches. For example, on the graph showing Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs, the spike that occurred at marker “F” was when the “Fake Steve” jobs was revealed.

Finally, keep in mind that these are search trends based upon Google searches.

–Apple vs. Microsoft–

–iPhone vs. BlackBerry–

–Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs–

–HP vs. Dell–

–MySpace vs. Facebook–

As expected, we see Facebook steadily climbing North!

–Flickr vs. Picasa–

I wasn’t expecting Flickr and Picasa to align as closely as they do. Both have seen a pretty decent climb in searches over the last month or two as well.

–iPod vs. Zune–

Is it just me, or is the Zune flat-lining?

–Xbox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii–

We know that the Wii is currently the best selling console, so it makes sense that there are more searches for the term “Wii” than there are for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

–Twitter vs. Jaiku vs. Pownce–

–Google vs. MSN vs. Yahoo–

Yahoo still leads the way here, although Google is getting close…

–IE vs.Safari vs. Firefox–

Wow, Firefox seems to be popular amongst searches, doesn’t it? I was going to include Opera here, but Google pulled in trends for opera singers, not exclusively the browser.

–Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux–

–Hotmail vs. Gmail vs. Yahoo Mail–

–Gizmodo vs. Engadget vs. Lifehacker–

While Lifehacker certainly wouldn’t be considered a competitor of Gizmodo or Engadget, it’s still a high-traffic blog that I thought would be interesting to compare against other high-traffic blogs.

–Spiderman vs. Batman–

Just for fun Can you tell when Spiderman 3 came out?

–Wrapping it up–

While none of these graphs provide any information we didn’t already know, it’s interesting to see how some of the most popular technology topics compare against others. If you’d like to do your own comparisons, just go to www.google.com/trends and enter in the topics you’d like to compare separated by a comma.  You can enter in up to five different topics. There’s a lot you can learn about what people are searching for, especially with the “hot trends.”

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