A new iPod Nano accessory, called nekFit, places your iPod Nano or Shuffle on the back of your neck. The idea is to keep your cables away from your arms and chest.

  John Butler is trying to introduce true browsing to the online shopping experience, blending the innovations of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with the old-school merchandising of R.H. Macy.

  NEW YORK - Vonage Holdings Corp., the beleaguered provider of Internet-based phone service, said yesterday it has settled a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon Communications Inc. for a maximum of $120 million.

  After Microsoft Corp. executives laid out plans in July to win at Web search, online advertising, Web-based software and video games, analysts wondered if the world's largest software maker had too many balls in the air.

  SAN FRANCISCO - Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.

  NEW YORK - EBay Inc., the world's largest online auctioneer and payments company, launched a website yesterday that allows ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world's poorest countries.

  In a major strategy shift, the Cambridge foundation that plans to provide laptop computers to poor children around the globe is asking wealthy individuals and corporations to help pick up the tab by purchasing hundreds or thousands of the machines.

  The Army has frozen a $280 million contract with a Chicago-area robot maker that is being sued by iRobot Corp. of Burlington.

  One morning last week, Damon DeHart gazed out a window of his Bedford home at his backyard. "Gee, the leaves are piling up nicely now," he said.

  Internet and telecoms giant Softbank Corp <9984.T> will spend about 40 billion yen ($350 million) to start operations next year at a new data centre in southwestern Japan, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.

  New York-based cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp <CVC.N> said on Friday it will raise the price of its average video package by 4.7 percent in 2008 due to increases in programming costs.

  Find the smiling face on the computer screen and reduce stress.

  Seven police cars chased a go-cart at high speed for five km (three miles) through the winding streets of the western German town of Moenchengladbach but were not able to keep up with the teenage speedster.

  Travelers want to go green and stay clean in the next year -- and they don't want cell phones disturbing their peace, according to an annual survey of travel trends.