The fax machine was invented in 1843, and both Xerox and Bell Labs had ongoing projects to fine-tune the concept.
The desktop printer for creating a signable copy of contracts, W-9 forms, and NDAs, and the fax machine for transmitting them.
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Between your voicemail inbox, the fax machine, your cell phone, and your inbox in your e-mail and the Web, it's just becoming too much.
So, if LinkedIn and Twitter have replaced the fax machine of 10 years ago, what might a resume look like a decade from now?
While calls went out to reporters all over town, Sperling ran up and down the stairs to the fax machine, sending out his memo and Panetta's statement.
Before he died in 1905, Verne had depicted--in some 60 novels--a world eerily like ours: airplanes, movies, guided missiles, submarines, the electric chair, air conditioning and the fax machine.
While there are many theories of how this was accomplished, from the influence of Rock and Roll, to the fax machine, I tend to give the most credence to the economic front.
Compulsory audits, he suggested, would not eliminate all problems but could cut out on incidences of sensitive information "being sent to the wrong fax machine or dropped in the street or left on an unencrypted memory stick".
Which brings up the indispensable fax machine, favored by many a buy-side firm but definitely not an STP-device.
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In battles with the office fax machine he usually came off worse.
The evidently fake statements, which bear the number of a PaineWebber fax machine in the firm's San Francisco office, listed some of the gold stocks Lerma owned, but with false share prices.
The Act demands that organisations it dubs Communication Service Providers (CSP) - broadly anyone that helps people keep in touch via the web, fax machine or phone - install technology that can automatically monitor what many of their customers are doing.
Fry recalled how his mother had back in the 80s asked him to help her operate a fax machine, and that she had found the contraption a remarkable feat of human achievement.
An illustration of a telephone talking to a fax machine left him none the wiser, nor the idea that "storing results of a two-way interaction to a central location" was something that his applications had copied from the American firm.
Voice mail may give the wrong time-stamp, as might a fax machine.
Instead, it was dreamed up by Ms. Blakely, a former fax machine salesperson who toiled away at the idea while still working at her day job.
At his trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Ramzan, 40, began trading from a bedroom at his home in Broughty Ferry, with only a telephone, a fax machine and a computer to access the internet.
And he made regular use of a private office across the street from Commerce, where he used phones and a fax machine.
For many years the company dominated the copy-machine market, but its leaders failed to pay attention to disruptive technologies and new products, such as fax machines and digital copiers, which undermined the entire copy-machine market.
Then there's the question of how Perusquia got away with sending what appear to be false account statements from a fax machine in its San Francisco office.
Five years ago social media tools were weapons of a revolution, of intruders to the enterprise and now they are another feature set, well on their way to being as controversial as a fax machine.
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