I have a problem. If I go to a swap meet , or even a particularly well stocked yard sale, I feel compelled to buy something. Especially if that something happens to be an oddball piece of electronics.

SANTA ANA – Superior Court Judge Gary Paer was waiting with his family for their dinner reservation at BJ’s Restaurant in Laguna Hills last summer when the lights on his hand-held pager went off ...

Used to notify patrons that their table is ready, restaurant paging systems are run by a desktop transmitter. When the host or hostess pages a customer, he or she enters the code for the pager into ...

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When Old Fisherman’s Grotto owner Chris Shake noticed his stockpile of customer pagers was dwindling, he thought he smelled something fishy. After a covert operation in which Monterey police officers ...

Getting buzzed at a restaurant today means less wait and confusion to get seated at a table. About two dozen eateries in South Florida and 300 nationwide now use pocket- sized pagers, which vibrate ...