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 Well, to this day, at many hospitals, doctors still communicate using the seemingly outdated piece of technology.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...