Dell to restate earnings ... Three indicted on software piracy ... Skype problems continue

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News: Skype problems may continue throughout the day
News: Dell to restate results after finding manipulation
News: Three indicted on software piracy charges
News: Nokia asks U.S. to ban import of Qualcomm products
News: PC and software sales boost HPs revenue, profit
Unix Tip: Redirecting standard error in Perl
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Skype problems may continue throughout the day
Skype Ltd. is still trying to restore service to millions of its customers almost 24 hours after they began to experience problems logging in to the VOIP service.

Dell to restate results after finding manipulation
Dell Inc. will restate its earnings for fiscal years 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after an internal audit found that certain employees had changed corporate account balances in order to meet quarterly financial targets, the company said Thursday.

Three indicted on software piracy charges
Three Florida men were indicted Thursday on charges related to selling millions of dollars worth of counterfeit software through several Web sites, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Nokia asks U.S. to ban import of Qualcomm products
Nokia Corp. wants the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban the import of Qualcomm Inc. chipsets that allegedly infringe on five patents held by the Finnish handset maker.

PC and software sales boost HPs revenue, profit
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s PC business and software sales from its Mercury Interactive acquisition helped produce net profit of $1.8 billion, for a 29 percent increase, with a 16 percent boost in revenue in the fiscal third quarter, according to financial results released Thursday.

Solaris on z mainframes next on the agenda for IBM, Sun
As IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. laid out a new agreement to have more IBM x86 servers and blades run on Solaris, the two companies were already looking ahead to another partnership, which could see IBM mainframes support the Sun operating system.


UNIX TIP

Redirecting standard error in Perl
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with standard out so that the two are handled together or you can send all standard error to the bit bucket. None of these techniques depends on what the person running the script does. Instead, they can all be set up in your Perl scripts. Let's take a look at how this works.

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