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If any of Rodney Eddins' accounting clients want his undivided attention at work first thing in the morning, they should shun e-mail or his telephone answering machine. Instead, they should send him a ...

When I was growing up, that screeching sound now most commonly associated with a dial-up modem wasn’t emitted from a computer. The sound came from a heap of plastic and buttons called a fax machine.

While the human race, by and large, has moved on from fax machines, they're still out there. The medical and real estate industries still cling to the technology -- possibly because they believe its ...

WHAT DO YOU do when the contract has to be returned today? Fax it. What do you do when the e-mail attachment got mangled in transit or simply never arrived? Fax it. What do you do when the manuscript ...

Ford government’s effort to “axe the fax” hasn’t reduced the number of breaches of medical confidentiality, according to the privacy commissioner.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, you couldn’t swing a stapler around any size office without hitting a fax machine. But what is it about the fax machine that makes it the subject of so much derision? Is it ...

WHO hasn't felt the urge to smash up the office fax with a hammer at least once? The machines are slow, testy and prone to breaking—usually at the worst possible moment. They became indispensable ...

In a brief break in Brexit shenanigans this week, the UK's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock announced that he was to ban fax machines from the National Health Service (NHS) ...

When was the Fax Machine Invented? Most Guesses Are Way Off Your email has been sent Most estimates are off by more than 100 years. Learn when the fax machine was actually invented and how it evolved ...

Fax machines and dinosaurs have become colloquially interchangeable. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From ...