Up to 200 pallets of desktop and notebook PCs, monitors, printers, servers and networking equipment are being offered on an "as is, where is" basis, the agency said. The equipment has been classified as "sanitized," meaning that all disk drives and other data storage devices have been removed from devices such as PCs and servers.

Bids will be accepted only for all of the pallets. A spokesman for the Department of Defense wouldn't predict how much money will be raised through the sale, saying that "no bottom line" has been set.

Briefly noted

-- Skype Ltd., a Luxembourg-based unit of eBay Inc., is advising users to upgrade to the latest version of its VoIP software to fix a security flaw reported this month by a researcher in New Zealand. The bug affects several versions of the Skype client for Windows and could enable an attacker to download files from an affected PC.

-- The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. said it double-charged 200,000 MasterCard customers who used its ATMs to get cash advances, after a computer glitch duplicated their transactions. A spokesman said the glitch was caused by human error during a routine maintenance check earlier this month. The bank refunded the overcharges, which totaled 45 million Australian dollars (US$34.1 million).