Sharp's new UX-B800SE Broadband Fax does the usual boring squelchy phone thing, oh sure, but it also has an Ethernet connection allowing you to send PDF or TIFF scans (two-sided, if you prefer) of your documents via email, as well as receive analog faxes and email them to you if you're like the tethered office drones of yesteryear, waiting around all morning for so-and-so's fax.

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But why, oh why, does he not also give Virgil's original words?

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"Then they would feel the product and it was, 'Oh, wow, that would be perfect, ' " for customers who want softness, but also want green credentials, she says.

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