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There are instances when you can’t avoid using faxes as a communication tool. Personally, I have a deep hatred of faxes. I find them outdated and costly, especially when I need to send them to an overseas number.

Thankfully though, there’s a low cost (free even, if you can tolerate ads in your faxes) method of sending faxes to the USA or Canada.

For $1.99 (USD), you can fax over a document to a US or Canadian number without needing a fax machine thanks to FaxZero. The document can be up to 15 pages (I’m assuming it’s for a standard A4 or letter size page) and should be in MS Word or PDF format in order to use this service.

If you’re really cheap, you can even fax a document using this service for free! However, the document is limited to three pages and a cover page containing advertisements will be included in your transmission.

If the fax is for business purposes, I suggest you invest in that $1.99 transmission fee to avoid your recipient having an ad-laced cover page. Surely you don’t want to be seen as cheap (or worse; unprofessional) to your prospects!

How important is instant messaging (IM) in your online life? For me, I don’t spend much time at all on IM. However, it is an important communications medium for me as a lot of my colleagues, friends and clients use it as the main method of staying in contact.

There are many popular IM protocols; Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Google Talk (which actually runs on the Jabber protocol) are among the more well-known. I have contacts on all these protocols, but running dedicated IM clients for each of them would be out of the question.

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I apologize for not updating HTNet for days now; I’m currently swamped by things at and beyond work. I’m actually forcing myself to post this so I can share a few useful writing links I found earlier.

• Words and phrases to kill
• The only general writing advice you’ll ever need
• 101 writing tips

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KUALA LUMPUR, 28 February 2008 – Green Packet Berhad (Green Packet) today announced a 24% jump in revenue from the previous year to RM122.84 million for its financial year ended 31 December 2007.

However, the company posted a lower pre-tax profit of RM30.99 million as compared with RM58.56 million in FY2006. Profit after tax (PAT) and minority an interest was RM30.16 million as compared with the previous corresponding period at RM55.29 million.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 19 FEBRUARY 2007 - Mesdaq listed mTouche Technology Berhad (mTouche) today announces its results for fourth quarter of financial year ended 31 December 2007 (Q4FY07). The Group announces a revenue and loss of RM45.2 million and RM12.5 million respectively.

The Group’s revenue is down by 15.2 percent from RM 53.3 million of the same period ending 31 December 2006. Its fourth quarter record loss of approximately RM17.8 million as compared to a profit of RM6.0 million from the previous quarter, is in line with anticipation of lower revenue generated due to adverse market condition.

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