At a surprisingly large number of hospitals, the pager remains the backbone of communication. The Planet Money team tries to understand why the pager has been so hard to replace. Remember the pager?

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 ...

If Apple completely goes after Beeper, then so be it. In a latest report, Beeper will likely give up the idea of defending its iMessage Android app against Apple if ever the latter blocks its methods.

Days after its launch, Beeper Mini has gone down. Beeper representatives say the error is on its servers’ end, so all we can do is wait. This outage forebodes a ...

Beeper Mini was a huge deal in the fight to bring iMessage to Android, but Apple swiftly turned the reverse-engineered method into an inconsistent experience for users. Beeper’s current plan to ...

You should get an iPhone if you want an iMessage chatting experience and are on Android. That's what I and many others have told you, especially since the Beeper Mini saga started. That's the only way ...

Beeper will be releasing an update to fix its iMessage on Android problem. The latest fix from the company will require users to have a Mac or have a friend on Beeper with a Mac. Users will need to ...

iMessage for Android app Beeper Mini is once again having connectivity issues, which it has attributed to Apple. Last night, Beeper Mini stopped working for some people, and the company confirmed that ...

A friend of mine had been using Beeper's iMessage-for-Android app, Beeper Mini to keep up on group chats where she was the only Android user. It worked great until last Friday, when it didn't work at ...

Remember Beeper? It was in the news recently for trying to integrate its Android app with iMessage before Apple made the process such an unsafe nightmare that the company abandoned the plan. Well, ...