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?

This bank’s applications automatically generate text pages with error messages whenever problems occurr, reports an IT pilot fish who’s part of the carry-a-pager ...

It should come as no surprise that the hacker community has embraced the Meshtastic project. It’s got a little bit of everything we hold dear: high quality open source software, fantastic ...

Taiwanese wireless device maker Gold Apollo said Wednesday the pagers used by Hezbollah members, which exploded in Lebanon and Syria and killed at least nine people a day earlier, were ...

So far, the attacks that targeted Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah members through their pagers have had devastating consequences. The pager explosions killed at least twelve people, ...