Word: pagers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever find him," says a prominent industry figure. "He has this pager number and he calls right back, but you never know where he is." Late last week his office said he was "traveling." Entertainment-industry analyst Hal Vogel also has no idea what Ovitz is doing. "It's amazing," he says. "The most powerful man in Hollywood has disappeared...
...reform. "The agenda they're talking about is the agenda we're talking about," he says. "It's likely it will become law." Clinton and Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, have been talking regularly. Lott was in minority leader Tom Daschle's office last week when Lott's pager went off, telling him that Clinton was calling. The Mississippian hustled back to his office to take the call in private. When he explained the delay to Clinton, the President laughed. "Well," Clinton said, "tell Tom I called to tell you I'm switching parties." That would...
...addition, a California tech start-up firm called Nikean Corp. (www.nikean.com) is currently working on a wireless cellular data modem to allow you to use the Pilot as a wireless e-mail/Web appliance and another accessory to turn the Pilot into a text pager. Look for these to hit stores in July...
Darlene D. Lin '97 was catching up on some reading in her Leverett House dorm room. Then her pager went off, sending her to the worst disaster she's ever seen...
...hard to think of a way to cram much extra functionality onto a pager, which is not expected to do much more than, well, pick up pages. That hasn't stopped the engineers at Wireless Access from developing a two-way pager that lets pagees send and reply to E-mail. The pager also picks up regular news, stock quotes and sports headlines and can be leased (the right choice, since the Skywriter costs $399 to buy) for about $15 a month. Pointing to each letter with the cursor may not be the most elegant solution, but it's your...