Startup Company Offers Free Calls to 50 Countries, but You May Have to Endure a Short Commercial First

The revived phone company Qwest has built up so much cash that it can think, cautiously, of buying another industry player.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says IBM is recalling 526,000 laptop batteries made by Sony. The Lenovo lithium-ion batteries used in "think pad" notebook computers may pose a fire hazard.