Remember the pager? Well, to this day, at many hospitals, doctors still communicate using the seemingly outdated piece of technology. Jeff Guo from our Planet Money podcast recently tried to ...
Pagers lack more modern navigation technologies so can be harder to track, but are still widely used in hospitals for their reliable service. By Daisuke Wakabayashi In the 1990s, before the widespread ...
Once ubiquitous in the 80s and 90s, the humble pager seemed destined for the technology graveyard, outpaced by the rise of mobile phones and internet technology. However, in a surprising turn of ...
(CNN) — Hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah members in Lebanon blew up nearly simultaneously on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack that surpasses a series of covert assassinations and ...
Pagers, devices that are used every day as a crucial form of communication for health care professionals, became a deadly weapon Tuesday as thousands of them simultaneously exploded in Lebanon, ...
FILE - Three women hold the pager 'Quix' as they present it at CeBIT '97 in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday March 18, 1997. The beep-beep-beep of a small black box on your belt or in your pocket was ...
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 ...
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