Companies are implanting bar code scanners in pens, key fobs, cell phones and pagers.
Several makers of mobile phones and pagers have added tiny keyboards for two-way messaging.
Dealers use pagers, cell phones and PDAs to create from this topology a sophisticated, and very lucrative, network.
This line of watches doesn't do anything that one-way pagers able to receive e-mail messages don't already do.
But I can't tell you how many pagers and buzzers and beepers are within about five feet of me.
Among other things, the businessman-inventor is always thinking up new ways to develop his company's stock in trade: pagers.
There are even pagers which alert their owners by flashing - perfect for a noisy concert, club or bedroom.
But even without the bells and whistles, pagers are likely to stay attractive.
Some of us had cell phones, all of us had pagers, and the whole process was a little sloppy.
New power centres will force a new breed of politicians to switch off their pagers and think for themselves.
But that does not mean that wireless data is non-existent across the Atlantic: Americans have pagers for their messages.
Satellites support phones, pagers, television broadcasts, Earth observation and the global positioning system.
Microdisplays will eventually end up in pagers and cellular phones, says Jim Bowser, a vice president at microdisplay vendor Three-Five Systems.
Email, mobile phones, laptops and, dare I say it, even pagers all mean that leisure time can be invaded by work.
Earlier this year, Samsung announced it would make two-way pagers using technology licensed from Nexus Telecommunication Systems, a small Israeli company.
But as you go down, take the mobile communications market -- you have digital cellular phones, cordless, pagers, all sorts of PDAs.
For short messages there are two-way pagers like Motorola's T900 Talkabout, not to mention the various short-message services built into cell phones.
Western firms have found that morale improves with widely applied economy drives, such as ending business-entertainment allowances or replacing mobile telephones with pagers.
Once inside the theater, they were made to file through security "mags" and to turn their cell phones and pagers on and off.
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He shunned cell phones and pagers, and wrote drafts of his opinions in longhand, while a court-issued computer gathered dust in his chambers.
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These types of devices can be initiated using simple electronic components including, but not limited to, digital watches, garage door openers, cellphones or pagers.
One of their featured recommendations is a former maker of one-way pagers, Arch Wireless (nasdaq: AWIN - news - people ).
Phones, pagers and PCs--and even some experimental cars--already have these attributes.
Skiers carry pagers to help authorities locate them in such situations.
Mrs Ingram was also questioned about phone calls made to pagers.
China is already one of the largest markets for mobile telephones and pagers, personal computers and antibiotics, and accounts for about one-third of global cigarette consumption.
The watches store up to 16 messages sent either by e-mail or by phone through the pager service, which isn't very many compared with most pagers.
Hard to fathom, but he claims he kept 2, 000 tons of phones, batteries, accessories, pagers, cases, chargers and cords--containing arsenic, lead and cadmium--out of landfills last year.
Koo, Samsung's general manager in Hong Kong, says the new pagers will be shipped initially to the United States but cannot say when they will hit Asia.
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