Pagers on display at a meeting room in the Gold Apollo company in New Taipei City (Reuters) -As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the ...

The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural Kansas, Dove used the little black device ...

So far, the attacks that targeted Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah members through their pagers have had devastating consequences. The pager explosions killed at least twelve people, ...

Electronic pagers across Lebanon exploded simultaneously on Tuesday, killing 12 and wounding more than 2,700. The following day, another wave of explosions in the country came from detonating ...

Last week we wrote about the growing popularity of smartphones among doctors and their growing use at hospitals. We wondered what it would take for smartphones to displace legacy pagers. After posting ...

While the pager was a pretty revolutionary device for its time, there are very few industries that still make use of this ...

More than 80 percent of physicians in the US now have smartphones. About a third have tablets. Despite the aggressive adoption rates of these devices many physicians still carry pagers. Yes, plenty of ...

Is “Operation Below the Belt” the End of Phones and Computers on Airplanes?: Earlier today, some entity—presumably Israel—caused 3,000 pagers used by Hezbollah to detonate simultaneously. It was a ...

(Reuters) -As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make to notify users about incoming messages, were largely rendered ...

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