Indian Tsunami Warnings in 10-20 Minutes
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
The Indian Express is reporting that the Indian Tsunami Centre can now detect major earthquakes in 10 minutes and have warnings issued in 20.
The Hyderbad based center can now issue warnings over email, fax, sms, and their website – ensuring that future tsunamis formed by earthquakes will have better warning time to costal areas.
This warning system is built with the intention of (more…)
Fax misuse responsible for murder suspect going free
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
In a case of forgotten toner, it appears that French court has allowed a murder suspect to go free because the hearing did not take place within a 20 day time period.
The cause? a fax machine that had run out of toner – it was so old a replacement couldn’t be found.
The fax had been sent but it was never seen by (more…)
Certification granted to class action lawsuit against MetLife for unsolicited faxes
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
A federal judge in Florida has issued a certification for a class action lawsuit against MetLife for responsibility for alleged unsolicited fax advertising by one of its partners.
While the class action suit is still in the early states, it is alleged that 35,000 Missouri residents received unsolicited advertisements over fax in 2012, and (more…)
Israeli Bill Would Make Alternatives to Fax Mandatory
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
In a world first, an Israel MP has proposed making it mandatory that service providers such as banks and other bureaucratic heavily institutions offer an electronic alternative to fax communication.
MK Stav Shaffir (Labor) who moved the motion is quoted as saying “The Israeli public is used to complaining about intolerable bureaucracy and the incredible slowness of service at banks, Internet companies or (more…)
Court rules that insurer is off the hook for a junk fax settlement
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
An appeals court in Illinois recently ruled that a lower-court judge was correct in letting an insurer off the hook for half the cost in a (more…)
Yellow Pages Fax Scam emerges in Australia
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
It appears that thousands of Australian businesses are receiving faxes that look to be from Yellow Pages, but are actually for a competing (and possibly phony) directory.
This is not a new scam – a similar one was recently shut down in Australia – it unfortunately takes some customers by surprise.
The faxes being issued have (more…)
Electronic records, not a standalone fax machine responsible for misdialled Saskatchewan health records
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner Gary Dickson recently released a report on health information on over 1,000 patients in Saskatchewan being sent to wrong or old fax numbers.
This time, it appears to be the electronic faxing feature of electronic fax records, as opposed to a (more…)
What are the most used fax numbers?
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
The online fax company fax zero sent more than 2 million faxes in 2013, and just released their “top faxed numbers of 2013”.
At the top of the list (more…)
Fax case could be headed to the supreme court
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
A small publisher could receive a fine of up to $48 million for sending faxes to a client who agreed to receive them.
As their faxes did not have an “opt-out” option on them, the FCC has ruled (more…)
Voice to text translation service makes fax poetry
Last Update: August 9th, 2021
Recently a fax number dialled a Twillo voice-to-text transcription phone number.
Usually these services are used for making voicemail easier to work with (it arrives as an email instead of having to listen to it and write it down), however this time it (more…)