The heyday of the pager is long since over, but the devices themselves have continued to be used for specialized purposes like search-and-rescue teams and emergency workers. In Japan, however, the ...

Popular medical blogger Dr. Kevin Pho, also known as KevinMD, has a noteworthy post on the growing popularity of smartphone use in hospitals and smartphones' "inevitable" displacement of pagers. A ...

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In brief: Those of a certain age who hold nostalgic memories for obsolete technology might feel a tug of the heart strings reading this story: over in Japan, the country's last pager service provider ...

Once a must-have tech toy, pagers are losing favor with consumers in the new mobile wireless age. CenturyTel says it's getting out of the pager business, effective Feb. 29. "Fewer and fewer people are ...