Verizon sets up Iobi Home

Verizon Communications on Tuesday began selling its iobi Home service, which lets customers manage phone calls, voice mail, calendars, address books and e-mail using wire-line and wireless phones, computers, laptops and personal digital assistants.

The $8-a-month personal communications service is available to Verizon residential phone customers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, and across the country soon, the New York company said. An enhanced version for businesses, Iobi Professional, will be launched later this year.