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This trend is the logical flip side to bringing your home into the office, a movement I was a proud pioneer in as early as 1990, when I routinely and unapologetically phoned the plumber from work. Now, as workplace tools like beepers, pagers and e-mail make an inevitable incursion into your life, you can harness their usefulness in the home too. If you keep a calendar for work on your Palm, cannibalize the idea to create a master family calendar to keep track of soccer games and piano lessons. Give colleagues and teachers a single e-mail address...
...pinball machine, and ever more advanced handheld gadgets debuted at a dizzying speed. As the year progressed, those who didn't crave or couldn't indulge a moment's isolation began connecting to the Internet through cell phones or to instant-messaging systems via the BlackBerry two-way pager...
...just to see if it's time to take your allergy medicine? WellMed www.wellmed.com thinks it has a less painful way to nag you. It's launching a wireless service that can send both routine and condition-specific notices straight to your Web-enabled phone, wireless PDA or alphanumeric pager. The free account can keep track of your daily health regimen and your full medical history, which can be automatically faxed to your hospital in case of an emergency...
Talkabout T900 2-Way Pagers MOTOROLA, $179 Send instant messages without a computer using these two-way pagers, available in four hot colors. Best of all, some pager services sell the units for as little as half the list price...
...invented the Internet was suddenly saved by it. As Gore's motorcade splashed through the rainy streets to the war memorial for the concession speech, traveling chief of staff Michael Feldman's pager quivered. It was field director Michael Whouley, saying he needed to talk to Daley. "Changed situation here," Whouley said. He was in the boiler room, watching the Florida Board of Elections website, which, Daley says, "had the margin down to 900, and within minutes, it was 500, 200, slipping pretty quickly." By now the motorcade had arrived at the memorial. Daley told Feldman to grab the Veep...