Word: pagers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example of ghostware haunts America's 3.1 million alphanumeric pagers (a.k.a. alphas), those sleek '90s icons that deliver, along with the usual phone numbers, written messages such as "Running late" or "Where's my heroin?" Almost all today's alphas, unbeknown to their owners, can also receive E-mail. That means Mom can beckon you home by sending a message over CompuServe or your husband can slip an electronic grocery list across the Internet and onto your hip. (If you have a pager, one phone call to your service provider should be enough to turn on the mail...
...messages. It works: five minutes after a Time reporter first picked one up, he managed to create and send E-mail--while navigating rush-hour traffic. How good is the technology? Three weeks ago, Microsoft shelled out an estimated $25 million to increase its small stake in Skytel, a pager company that will sell the SkyWriter this fall. Bill Gates, it seems, believes in ghosts...
...TANGO TWO-WAY PAGER Motorola's latest gadget is the same size as an old-fashioned pager but way more versatile. All the fun of a walkie-talkie without the obnoxiousness of a cellular phone...
...merely symptomatic of the larger problem of these technothriller novels: self-absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated the minds of young...
...then as if it to prove his point, Mayberry took a pager from his back pocket and placed it on the table...