Only four fax machines are left.

CNN: MIDDLEMEN, BEWARE

Users can either receive all reports or an alert -- by E-mail or fax or pager -- only when there's an unexpected result.

FORBES: Database evangelist

When groups could communicate only by telephone, fax or mail, it was prohibitively expensive to share information or build links between different organisations.

ECONOMIST: Citizens�� groups

At his trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Ramzan, 40, began trading from a bedroom at his home in Broughty Ferry, with only a telephone, a fax machine and a computer to access the internet.

BBC: Shahid Ramzan