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  2. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  3. PocketBell - Wikipedia

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    History. Philippine Wireless Inc. introduced PocketBell in the 1970s, becoming the first company to make pagers commercially available in the Philippines. From the 1970s until the mid-1980s, it virtually maintained a monopoly in the pager industry in the country. After the 1986 People Power Revolution which deposed President Ferdinand Marcos ...

  4. Radio-paging code No. 1 - Wikipedia

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    An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper network. Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the P ost O ffice C ode S tandardisation A dvisory G roup, the name of the group that developed the code under the ...

  5. Simple Network Paging Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Simple Network Paging Protocol. Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) is a protocol that defines a method by which a pager can receive a message over the Internet. It is supported by most major paging providers, and serves as an alternative to the paging modems used by many telecommunications services. The protocol was most recently described ...

  6. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    Memory paging. In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage [a] for use in main memory. [citation needed] In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called ...

  7. EasyCall - Wikipedia

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    Transnational Diversified Group. Website. easycall.com.ph. EasyCall Communications Philippines, Inc. ( ECP ), or simply known as EasyCall, is a telecommunications company most noted for its paging services in the Philippines in the 1990s. [1] It ended paging services in 2002, shifting to other telecommunications services.

  8. Motorola Minitor - Wikipedia

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    Motorola Minitor. Front view of the Minitor V pager. The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies. The Minitor, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes, is carried on a person and usually left in selective call mode.

  9. Minecraft (film) - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft is an upcoming American adventure film based on the 2011 video game of the same name by Mojang Studios.Produced by Legendary Pictures, Mojang, and Vertigo Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is being directed by Jared Hess, from a screenplay written by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer, and produced by Jill Messick, Lydia Winters, Mary Parent, Jon Berg, Vu Bui ...