The beeping stops only when they turn off the pager at night, and when it is turned on again next morning, invariably the memory in the device is filled to capacity. "It only holds 16 calls before it ...

When Dr. Brittany Bankhead, a trauma surgeon in Lubbock, Texas, got her first pager in 2011, she felt like she was stepping into the big leagues. “The first day you receive one, it feels like a rite ...

TRENTON-- New Jersey lawmakers are considering lifting a ban on an item once considered so disruptive and synonymous with drug dealers that it was outlawed on school grounds. Soon, if state Senators ...

Remember pagers? They were huge in the 80s — these little devices that could receive short messages. Sir Mix-A-Lot even had a song about them! But then cell phones came along, and pagers more or less ...

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 ...