JetFax has launched a Web site offering free Internet-fax services to users. After registering at www.efax.com, users receive a fax number that can route faxes to their email account. The cost of the service will be met by advertising in the form...
IP networking company, Nildram, has launched a free fax-to-email service. Companies which register on its Web site can have their faxes forwarded to a designated email address as attachments, allowing them to get rid of their own fax machines.
Equisys has unveiled a product developed with Cardiff Software that allows computers to automatically read and input data received in fax form. Users will also be able to fax information directly from a database, and directly from the desktop.
The inventor of the fax machine, Rudolfh Hell, has died at the grand old age of 100 years. Although the German's most famous invention was the fax, he can also be credited with achieving a number of other technological feats.
Despite the rise of email and the internet, the good old fax still has an important part in business communications, according to recent research. Important business documents, such as account details and job offers, are still being sent via fax.
A lawyer's failure to operate a fax machine correctly has been blamed for the European Commission losing a multi-million-euro court case. According to the Financial Times, the European Court of First Instance overturned the fine because an EC...