Apple Computer Inc.'s sleek iPod nano music player was among the top-selling electronic items on Amazon.com on Friday and some models sold out on a top retailer's Web site as consumers stocked up on holiday gifts on one of the year's busiest shopping days.

The stock of Cupertino, California-based Apple was the

Netherlands - The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday ordered Internet company Lycos to reveal the identity of a client in a benchmark decision on privacy that was praised by copyright groups as a way to go after illegal swapping of music and movies online.
 
It is the first ruling of

Sweden - There won't be any cotton candy, but most other treats of a world fair would be available in an Internet version of the global exposition being prepared in Sweden.

The Swedish government and the organization responsible for running the World Expo want to attract younger people and others without the

The operator of the Kazaa file-sharing network on Friday said an Australian court would hear an appeal on a copyright case in late February conditional on Kazaa making some changes to its software in the mean time.
 
Kazaa will have to modify its software to filter out key words linked

The worldwide server market grew at an 8.1 percent year-over-year rate in the third quarter paced by Microsoft Windows and Linux servers who continue to battle each other for customers, IDC said Tuesday. Total revenue for the quarter reached $12.5 billion.

“Windows showed very strong growth in the quarter,” said Steve Josselyn,

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has asked to be allowed to make arguments against Microsoft Corp. in part of its appeal against last year's antitrust ruling against it by the European Union's competition authority, the European Commission, an FSFE attorney said Thursday.

The foundation, along with the team working on the

For the big day-after Thanksgiving shopping stampede: How about going online to give the fanatic in your life a way to watch sports on a 2-inch screen costing $400?

While the $400 ESPN Mobile cellphones won't be in stores nationwide until February, they go on sale online Friday at mobileespn.com, whose homepage headline

Aspyr Media Inc. has announced the release of Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. It’s Aspyr’s first originally-published A-list game, and it’s available for Mac OS X, Windows and Xbox. Aspyr expects the Mac version of the game to hit retail stores in time for “Black Friday.”
 
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TOKYO - Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. on Friday said it would dock the pay of its president and several other executives after problems in the company's software forced the Tokyo Stock Exchange to shut down trading earlier this month.
 
The computer maker's board of directors cut President Hiroaki Kurokawa's salary by

The 57,000 inhabitants of the Arctic island of Greenland will soon have access to the fastest Internet connections available in Europe, German engineering conglomerate Siemens said on Friday.
 
Siemens said it would supply broadband access of up to 24 megabits per second to Greenland's settlements by the end of the