With yet another reminder of the need to separate the use of business and personal activities, a Wichita City Council member is currently facing a state ethics charge over e-mails. Kansas state law prohibits the use of public equipment to advocate or campaign for any public office. This includes the use of computers, emails, and fax machines. It’s an issue that frequently comes up, and demonstrates the need that most [...]
Fax Machine
As reported by the Khaleej Times in an article called “Anger on the Rise” consisting of a list of annoyances that are common in the world today, “75 per cent of workers become angry when a colleague leaves the printer/fax machine empty of paper.” While it’s inconsiderate, it’s also a potential liability in an office environment – frequently a fax machine will receive a fax but save it in memory [...]
Xerox has recently announced a sale on some of their all-in-one printers, including the WorkCentre 3210, Phaser 3300MFP, WorkCentre 3550, and Phaser 3635MFP. All have the ability to print, copy, scan, and fax, and start at $199. The higher end WorkCentre 3550 and Phaser 3635MFP currently have a $50 and $100 trade in rebate on them. For more, see Xerox’s printer sale page at http://www.direct.xerox.com/shop/xerox-mono-printer-sale
Recently McAfee formed a partnership with Xerox to help develop security systems to address threats against confidential data in the workplace, specifically on Printer, Fax, and Multifunction (Copier) platforms. Designed for the business level platform, the result will be Xerox’s licensing of McAfee’s technology that is designed to make a layer of security between the core processor and the unit’s system software to be able to detect if malware or [...]
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! A good reminder on Wink News in Fort Meyers Florida that there are a number of cruise contest scams going around. Recently in Florida, Wink News had their reporters enter into a local cruise contest to see the legitimacy of it. The only result? a 12 minute long phone message followed by “winners” having to pay out a $100 voucher to book the trip. Following a [...]
According to the Fay Observer, to get a birthday card sent from the President to someone over 80 years old, the fastest way to do so is through fax. The quickest way to get the message through is by fax – by sending it to 202-456-2461. Alternatively, it can be sent through mail to White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., 20500, or online at http://whitehouse.gov/contact. All requests should be [...]
With a new effort to help citizens avoid the trip to the courthouse, Philadelphia is now letting their citizens contest parking tickets through the internet, email, fax, or regular mail. Considered a good move by people who work irregular hours or far from courthouse facilities, similar systems have already been implemented by Boston, New York, and San Diego. For more information on Philadelphia and Contesting Parking Tickets by Fax: Newsworks.org [...]
As quoted from WINK News in Napels, Florida, Deborah Foley and Paul Lietz got a new phone line, and with it a number that was frequently misquoted by the David Lawrence Health Centre in Naples. At first they contacted the health center and the faxes stopped, however recently they have been deluged with faxes from other health facilities trying to fax the health center, thinking that a residential number is [...]
AIIM, the “Global Community of Information Professionals” recently released a report on the benefits of removing paper from corporate office processes. If anything, many of the advancements of the paperless office have moved to more printing and paperwork than less. Quoting a survey run by AIIM, 3/4 of IT professionals say that the first thing they do with PDF based invoices is print them out, with almost 1/6 of them [...]
Canon U.S.A. Inc, recently was awarded seven Winter “Pick” awards from Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) for its imageFORMULA, imageCLASS, and imageRUNNER ADVANCE solutions. Primarily focusing on two areas – the scanner market with “outstanding scanner” (in their own classes) for the imageFORMULA DR-M160, DR-C125, P-215, and DR-M140, and the area of energy efficiency – with the Canon imageCLASS D550 and imageRUNNER Advance C2020 copy / print / scan / fax [...]
While we don’t want to wade into official positions on legal issues, we feel the need to gently remind the public that faxes are generally considered a communication that has been “received”. As we are reminded in the case of an owner of a Georgia nursing home who was accused of neglecting to maintain the facility as well as issue bounced cheques, a number of faxes (likely with a copy [...]
The great state if Illinois has an ethics policy that employees “shall not intentionally perform any prohibited political activity during any compensated time. State employees shall not intentionally misappropriate any state property or resources by engaging in prohibited political activity for the benefit of any campaign for elective office or any political organization” That line appeared to have been potentially crossed when WGFA radio in Watseka checked the D-1 Statements [...]
In a world of laser guided missiles, multi-million dollar fighter jets, and cyber-warfare, there is, apparently still a need for fax based technology in the world of warfare. As covered by Time magazine’s article “The Navy’s Flying Fax Machine: The Way Back to the Future“, In a recent Navy contract inquiry, there has been a request for a fax machine capable of operation at 10,000 feet, as well as a [...]
Following on the success of their PIXMA line of printers, Canon USA Inc. has recently announced the continuation of the line with the new MX512 Wireless All In One, MX432 Wireless All In One, and the MX372 All In One. The primary development with this update in the PIXMA line is the ability to integrate with Android and IOS (iPhone) devices over the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint Mobile App. Allowing the user [...]
Recently announced by HP as well as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, HP has issued a voluntary recall and rebate for a series of fax machines distributed in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. due to fire and burn hazards. Machines affected are: HP Fax 1040, 1050, 1010, and 1010xi. The recall on the 1040 and 1050 were announced January 31, 2012, while the 1010 and 1010xi were announced June [...]
As recently quoted by the Eleizabethton Star in “Library board approves new fax service for patrons“, Local libraries are finding that having access to fax technology is an important service to the community. While physical fax machines are disappearing from everyday life, fax technology still remains a necessary method of communicating, and we are seeing a shift of resources to community and business based fax methods as well as a [...]
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