Business notebook
Acquired: Waters Corp., of Milford, which makes scientific instruments, acquired Calorimetry Sciences Corp., which makes instruments to measure the heat of chemical reactions. Terms were not disclosed.
Delayed: Boston Communications Group Inc. delayed filing its second-quarter report but expects to report $21 million in revenue, down from $23 million a year earlier. The Bedford company provides call processing and customer support services for wireless carriers. It's being acquired by the Indian company Megasoft Ltd.
Rejection possible: The FCC may reject M2Z Networks' plan to build a wireless network for free, nationwide, high-speed Internet service. FCC chairman Kevin Martin wants to deny the application, said M2Z, which wants to use the airwaves in exchange for 5 percent of advertising sales -- an unusual arrangement for the FCC, which normally uses auctions to sell spectrum licenses to carriers.
Suspension ends: The Navy will no longer bar Herley Industries' Lancaster and Woburn plants from federal contracts. The company said the suspension was lifted after an investigation into falsified test results.
Free storage: Microsoft Corp. will let users of Hotmail store 5 gigabytes of photos and other e-mail messages, up from 2GB currently. Only a small number of users will ever approach that limit, the company acknowledged. Google allows nearly 3GB. Yahoo and AOL offer unlimited free storage.
Fined: Travelocity.com has paid $182,750 to settle a complaint it booked trips to Cuba 1,500 times in violation of the 45-year-old US embargo. The company blamed technical problems and said it did not intend to allow such bookings.
Sued: Film director Nesya Shapiro Blue sued Amazon.com for $2.15 million, claiming its movie database, imdb.com, falsely credits her for two pornography films. Blue says she lost business worth more than $250,000 as a result.
Settled: FedEx Corp. will pay almost $55 million and change its promotion practices to end a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of black and Hispanic workers at its FedEx Express unit.
iBooks: HarperCollins Publishers will make a few pages of some of its titles available on Apple Inc.'s iPhone to entice consumers to buy the books, including "Ike."
Up in the air: Midwest Air Group's board meets today to consider options for a sale, including a sweetened offer by AirTran Holdings. Midwest had expected to make official its deal with the private investment firm TPG Capital and Northwest Airlines.
Case dismissed: A Moscow court threw out a case against the former head of music downloading site allofmp3.com and rejected damage claims from three major record labels. Allofmp3.com has been repeatedly cited by US negotiators as imperiling Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization.
(Globe wire services)
