Motorola Inc. has turned Boynton Beach into the world’s wellspring for electronic pagers. This plant first turned out pagers in 1984; these days, the plant hums around the clock, manufacturing ...

Electronic paging moved to a new plateau Tuesday when Motorola Inc. unveiled technologies and agreements designed to dramatically expand services-including a new voice-paging capability by early ...

The original Motorola was founded in 1928 and developed quickly into a maker of car radios. In the 1970s and 1980s, it helped pioneer the cell phone business with its clunky shoe-sized devices.

This one small act showcased the pager and reinforced the idea that it was a hot commodity. In 2001, Motorola announced the end of the manufacturing of the pager.

Motorola's first pager, the Pageboy 1 created in 1964, allowed an audible alert to be sent by telephone before the technology was perfected and allowed, from the 80s, to send written messages. - AFP ...

Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times. By Daisuke Wakabayashi. Sept. 18, 2024. ... Most of the prominent pager brands of the 1990s, such as Motorola, ...