Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden (R) and other police react as they get word on a pager that Falcon Heene was safe in Fort Collins, Colorado October 15, 2009. The flight of a home-made helium balloon that sparked a frantic rescue attempt for Heene thought to be aboard was a publicity-seeking hoax, Alderden said October 18, 2009. Photo taken October 15, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES SOCIETY)

Detroit's Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is seen meeting with the media about a new neighborhood revitalization initiative in Detroit, Michigan in this May 15, 2007 file photo. Kilpatrick ended a week of seclusion, January 30, 2008, with a televised speech asking city residents and his family for forgiveness following a Detroit Free Press report last week of romantic text messages on his and his former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty's city-issued pager. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/Files (UNITED STATES)

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (L), head coach Avery Johnson (2nd L) and commissioner David Stern (R) laugh as forward Dirk Nowitzki responds to an announcement to silence all cell phones and pagers before the start of the presentation ceremony of the NBA Most Valuable Player Trophy in Dallas, Texas, May 15, 2007. REUTERS/Mike Stone (UNITED STATES)

A former Jetsgo employee holds up a sticker after collecting his final paycheque at head office in Montreal, March 14, 2005. Employees in both [Toronto] and Montreal were told to hand in their company parking passes, manuals and pagers before obtaining their final paycheques after the Canadian discount airline ceased operations last Friday.

Former Jetsgo stewardesses, Sandra Goulet (L) and Laniae Salhi, collect their training manuals as they arrive at the company's head office in Montreal, March 14, 2005. Employees in both Toronto and Montreal were told to hand in their company parking passes, manuals and pagers before obtaining their final paycheques after the Canadian discount airline ceased operations last Friday. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi CM

A former Jetsgo stewardess, Amanda Harvey walks with her luggage after picking up her final paycheque at the company's head office in Montreal, March 14, 2005. Employees in both Toronto and Montreal were told to hand in their company parking passes, manuals and pagers before obtaining their final paycheques after the Canadian discount airline ceased operations last Friday. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi CM

A former Jetsgo stewardess, Isabelle LaPerriere, hugs a co-worker good-bye after picking up her final paycheque at head office in Montreal, March 14, 2005. Employees in both Toronto and Montreal were told to hand in their company parking passes, manuals and pagers before obtaining their final paycheques after the Canadian discount airline ceased operations last Friday. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi CM

A former Jetsgo employee holds up a sticker after collecting his final paycheque at head office in Montreal, March 14, 2005. Employees in both Toronto and Montreal were told to hand in their company parking passes, manuals and pagers before obtaining their final paycheques after the Canadian discount airline ceased operations last Friday. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi CM

Singer Brandi looks at her two way pager while at the women's
semifinals at the U.S. Open Tennis Championship in New York September
7, 2001. REUTERS/Mike Blake

PJ/ME

- PHOTO TAKEN 07AUG01 _ Kamal, who uses a pseudonym, display hidden a pager and a cellular phone, which he used to communicate with his Israeli masters, in a wooden clock as he recalls in a Palestinian prison cell the long years he worked as a collaborator for Israel in Gaza Strip. He feels shame and regret for his 14 years of cooperation which helped Israel enforce its occupation of the Gaza Strip, which it seized during the 1967 Middle East war. Kamal is one of a growing number of people detained on suspicion of collaborating with Israel during the uprising which erupted last September after peace talks stalled. Picture taken August 7, 2001.

Kamal, who uses a pseudonym, display hidden a pager and a cellular
phone, which he used to communicate with his Israeli masters, in a
wooden clock as he recalls in a Palestinian prison cell the long years
he worked as a collaborator for Israel in Gaza Strip. He feels shame
and regret for his 14 years of cooperation which helped Israel enforce
its occupation of the Gaza Strip, which it seized during the 1967
Middle East war. Kamal is one of a growing number of people detained on
suspicion of collaborating with Israel during the uprising which
erupted last September after peace talks stalled. Picture taken Auguest
7,2001.

REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah FEATURE TO BE RELEASED WITH BC MIDEAST
COLLABORATORS.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's doctor Sung Lee (R) holds up a Medtronic 3DR pacemaker plus with Dr. Alan Wasserman (C) and Dr. Jonathan Reiner (L) looking on during a news conference at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, June 30, 2001. Doctors implanted a pager-sized device in the chest of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday to correct episodes of a rapid heartbeat.

WP/ME

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrives at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, June 30, 2001. Cheney underwent heart tests on Saturday that could lead to surgery to implant in his chest a pager-sized device designed to keep his heartbeat regular.

WP/ME

Rap music artist Da Brat carries her two way pager in hand as she arrives as a guest for the premiere of the new comedy film " Big Momma's House" starring Martin Lawrence May 31 in Hollywood. Lawrence portrays a bumbling FBI agent who goes undercover in the film which opens June 2 in the United States. Da Brat is featured on the film's soundtrack.

FSP

Steve Case (L), Chairman and CEO of America Online, looks over the shoulder of Gerald Levin, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., as they look at a pager of Mr Levin's at a press conference in New York, January 10 where the two companies announced that AOL would buy Time Warner for about $163 billion in stock. The deal is reported to be the largest corporate merger in history.

MS/HB

A Motorola representative holds a Beepwear Pro pager/watch, a Timex and Motorola product, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 7. The first pager/watch to accept word and number messages, it also automatically sets the time to the time zone you are in via a SkyTel satellite. The Beepwear Pro retails for $199.99.

New cell phones showing at the Comdex computer convention, like this Motorola IDEN I1000 mobile phone displayed November 17, combine functions and added features. The new Motorola phone weighs only 5 onces but is also a radio and an alphanumeric pager. The phone features one-touch call back and voice conferencing. It retails for about $300.

SM/HB/ME

New cell phones showing at the Comdex computer convention, like this Motorola IDEN I1000 mobile phone displayed November 17, combine functions and added features. The new Motorola phone weighs only 5 onces but is also a radio and an alphanumeric pager. The phone features one-touch call back and voice conferencing. It retails for about $300.

A small investor watch stock prices outside a pager service and information service centre in Hong Kong September 21. Hong Kong stocks finished sharply lower on Monday after Japanese stocks ended at a new 12-year low and amid worries over the escalating U.S. White House sex and perjury scnadal. The blue chip Hang Seng Index tumbled 275.73 points, or 3.70 percent, to close at 7,170.23 against the day's low of 7,142.19.

LC/TAN/WS

A promotion woman shows off pager-wristwatch "NEXT Zi:ks," a water-resistant watch with a vibrating pager that works even underwater, at mobile communications company NTT DoCoMo in Tokyo January 20. Sales of the new pager-wristwatch starts January 22 for 13,800 yen ($106).

Motorola exhibited the Pagewriter 2000, a device that allows wireless communication to pagers, e-mail addresses and fax machines, among other functions, at the Comdex trade show, November 19 in Las Vegas. The two-way pager should be available around the begining of 1998 and is expected to retail for about $400.

Motorola exhibited the Pagewriter 2000, a device that allows wireless communication to pagers, e-mail addresses and fax machines, among other functions, at the Comdex trade show, November 19 in Las Vegas. The two-way pager should be available around the begining of 1998 and is expected to retail for about $400.

COMDEX

A pager is marked as evidence near the Miami Springs home of Dr. Silvio Alfonso, who was found murdered July 17 morning. Witnesses told police that a man fitting the description of Andrew Phillip Cunanan was seen running from the victim's home. Cunanan is the prime suspect in the murder of clothing designer Gianni Versace.

VERSACE CUNANAN

A resident of Indian capital New Delhi reads an advertisement in a leading newspaper featuring late Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler on January 24. The Hitler image used for the advertisement to promote a radio pager as small but powerful, was withdrawn after protests.