Business notebook

In the pipeline: Sapient Corp., which offers business and technology consulting services, has a five-year, $70 million contract with a unit of the Canadian pipeline owner Enbridge Inc. to implement a new customer information system.

New moniker: National Grid Wireless, of Boxborough, has changed its name to Lightower.

New customers: Google Inc. has added five universities to its roster of customers for Google Apps, Web-based programs that include e-mail, word-processing, and spreadsheet programs: the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, the University of Texas in San Antonio, Clemson University, Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

Vying to be No. 1: Southwest Airlines is on pace to unseat American Airlines as the world's biggest airline, measured by passenger traffic. Domestic-only Southwest carried 40.3 million passengers from January to May; American carried 40 million on both domestic and international routes.

Second life: Starting next month, Sony Corp. will accept any Sony or Sony Ericsson-branded gadgets for free, and other brands for a fee, at 75 recycling stations in 18 states.

Cereal saga: Kellogg's and General Mills may each seek to buy Kraft Foods' Post cereal brands, JPMorgan Securities said. Post could fetch $2.2 billion.

Suits filed: Fleet Phospho-soda, used to flush out patients' bowels before colonoscopies, has caused kidney damage and even death, 50-plus lawsuits allege. C.B. Fleet Co. says its product is safe.

Orders down: North American orders for computer-chip equipment fell 17 percent to $1.44 billion in July from a year earlier as companies pared spending, Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International said.

(Globe wire services)