Word: fax
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Working on a holiday may not seem odd for a woman who has spent many New Year's weekends talking policy and trading fax numbers with new friends at the Renaissance Weekend retreats for the well-connected on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina...
...things we do is offer very good rates and 24-hour turnaround," he said. "The whole system is pretty much computerized. We can fax out articles, courier articles, [send] articles [by Federal Express]--we're able...
...even agree on a name. The term "twentysomething" dates quickly, while "Generation X" is meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam...
...Fritz Ringling, a telecommunications consultant at Network Dynamics in New York City. "It wants Johnny in Atlanta to play Sega video games with his cousin in Seattle; Mom to use the Universal card and have her purchases rung up on an NCR cash register that uses an AT&T fax to transmit credit-verification data; and Dad to send messages to his office while he's out on a sales call using his AT&T hand-held computer." AT&T also intends to be a main source for the ; pocket phones, portable computers and other devices that tap into...
With its announcement this week, Microsoft seeks to extend Windows beyond desktop personal computers to telephones, copiers, printers and fax machines. Since these markets dwarf the PC business, the company stands to collect enormous revenues by licensing its software design to office-equipment vendors that will make the new machines that run the Microsoft At Work system. The combined sales of copiers, printers, telephones and fax machines, for instance, topped $60 billion last year, in contrast to $38 billion for PCs. Analysts project that Microsoft could generate at least $200 million in royalties from those licenses by the year...