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Verizon to shut down Internet phone service

 
Verizon Communications Inc. has told customers it is shutting down its VoiceWing Internet-based phone service to focus on other technologies. VoiceWing will be permanently shuttered on March 31, the phone company told customers in a letter last week. Those... (link)

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