Forget the rain, forget the heat, forget the gloom of night — now the mail can be carried over the phone wires in an instant. The U.S. Postal Service is offering fascimile machines at 263 post offices ...

With companies conducting more business over email, fax machines have become more of a relic in the office setting. Used to facilitate the process of sending a piece (or multiple pieces) of paper from ...

Businesses often rely on email to transmit documents and communicate with vendors and customers, but fax machines are still used in many offices to send and receive vital documents. For example, you ...

So the fax machine that my office has been using for the past 16 years apparently is finally on it's last legs and they've tasked me with finding a replacement. We're currently using an old Omnifax ...

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 ...

The paperless office doesn’t seem any closer to reality as flying cars do. As connected as everyone is, it would seem that printing documents or sending messages on paper should be on the verge of ...

They’ve faxed the business reports, sales contracts and grant proposals. Now they’re churning out football bets, orders for take-out food, party invitations and maps to the house. They’re faxing ...

This article is part of Update or Die, a series from Future Tense about how businesses and other organizations keep up with technological change—and the cost of falling behind. Among the retro symbols ...

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 ...