If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Pagers might have been the shortest-lived personal electronic device ever to grace a ...

11, 2001, attacks. Some medical professionals and emergency workers prefer pagers to cell phones or use the devices in ...

The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2 800 others in Lebanon and adjacent places on Tuesday were mostly just a new wrinkle on the exploding cell-phones that Israel has ...

The pagers that exploded had been newly acquired by Hezbollah after the group’s leader ordered members to stop using cell phones, warning they could be tracked by Israeli intelligence.

By then, pagers also had become associated with drug dealers and schools were cracking down. More than 50 school districts, from San Diego to Syracuse, New York, banned their use in schools ...