Pagers

But while MPs were busy keeping their pagers under control, the political establishment was otherwise slow on adopting other technologies.

I don't think we've had one where it's been Christmas Day but I think my mum is ready for it for both pagers to go and for us to up and go.

It said: "Our crews pagers rang out at 10.34 this morning after a 999 call to Falmouth Coastguard from the owner of a dog which had fallen over cliffs near Portloe.

Unlike other pagers, users could write out full messages instead of coded numbers.

We've had a few times in the family where it's Christmas time and the pagers go.

A few days after the astounding pagers operation, Israeli intelligence had another major success.

As Israel targeted pagers that Hezbollah relied on, the Russians could take out undersea cables that provide internet.

As the device owners attempted to decode the message, the pagers exploded.

A wave of exploding pagers in Lebanon and Syria dominates the front pages of Wednesday’s newspapers.

Bodies fill the corridors of Beirut hospitals this morning as doctors desperately try to help those caught in a mass explosion of pagers across Lebanon yesterday.

But she did not reply to calls from the FT or other media outlets until tracked down by NBC News to which she told the broadcaster: “I don’t make the pagers.

But the Hungarian government said the pagers were never in Hungary and BAC Consultants acted as an intermediary.

Earlier, Reuters said, citing sources, that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad may have planted explosives in 5,000 pagers ordered by the Lebanon-based Shiite party Hezbollah from Taiwan’s Gold Apollo.

Hezbollah switched from mobile phones to pagers only months ago because they were supposedly more secure (against eavesdropping).

However, in a brief interview with Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono has denied any direct involvement in the manufacture of the pagers stating that, “I am just the intermediate.

Initially it was suspected that Mossad had managed to intercept and plant tiny bombs in a shipment of the pagers headed for the Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon after thousands of people were injured and dozens killed.

It happened just days after a wave of explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies used by the group that killed dozens, wounded thousands more and caused panic in a country already exhausted by almost one year of conflict.

Modern pagers (similar to that pictured inset) were made to explode, injuring Hezbollah fighters and others.

Nine people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says.

Norway’s security police have begun a preliminary investigation into reports that a Norwegian-owned company was linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week.