Take a look at the wikipedia entry for favicon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
The format for this is an .ico file and you need to place this in the root folder of your webserver.
For more advanced scenarios, you can also have a different icon per page by using:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.example.com/myicon.ico" />
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