Web voip service

SunRocket, a voice over IP provider, told employees on Monday that it's shutting down, according to several reports from former employees. The company's Web site is still up, but its customer service line has this recording: "We are no longer taking customer service or sales calls. Goodbye." An internal memo from Sonya Jefferson, director of routing and carrier services for SunRocket was posted on the GigaOm blog earlier Monday. "Unfortunately this email contains very bad news. We have just been informed that any and all last ditch efforts to keep operations running as well as a potential sale of the company have not gone through and that SunRocket will cease operations at COB today. As such, today is my last day and everyone else you may have worked with at SunRocket. ***

Mixing seemingly unrelated pieces and parts together can often yield exciting results. Take the guy who added a forked straw and a pair of beer cans to a baseball cap: Genius! The new RTXPortal phone has potential to be one of those exciting results. Like Emeril Lagasse combining ingredients in the kitchen, RTX combined some ideas and BANG: A VoIP/landline hybrid phone is born. According to RTX, the new phone is the first hybrid, Web-enabled cordless phone. It has myriad features, like a color screen that displays customizable Web content with news, local traffic, weather reports, buddy lists, calendar alarms, and instant messages. ***

Yahoo is expanding its voice services, adding features that will let customers make calls to and from PCs and phones for a penny per minute. The move puts the Web portal more directly in competition with services like Skype, which was recently bought by eBay. Several other companies, including heavyweights Microsoft and Google, offer PC-to-PC calling. Many bloggers saw the low pricing as Yahoo's way of playing hardball, signaling that it would make it tough for any company without deep pockets to play in this market. ***