This week, while his candidate was in New Hampshire, sticking to his positive message and trying to stay above the fray, Mr. Lehane (pronounced luh-HAIN) hovered in the background, constantly working his cellphone and his BlackBerry pager, putting out the message that while his candidate was moving up, others were slipping.
Late one mid-November morning in San Jose, four Bowman analysts had their Research In Motion pagers laid out on the oval conference table at Jetstream Communications, one of their venture capital pet projects.
My birding friend Rob may have got married only the day before, but nothing stops him from looking regularly at his pager to check out the latest sightings of rare birds.
Others have concealed a skimmer inside a hollowed-out pager, also worn on the belt.
In a string of experiments, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, of Claremont Graduate University, has handed out pagers to thousands of people who agreed to log their mood whenever prompted to do so.
He loves practical jokes, and delights in swiping his colleagues' BlackBerry pagers and sending out ridiculous e-mail messages under their names.
The Trucking Industry National Defense Committee ran a full-pager to point out that if the United States was attacked, railroads would be a primary target.
In the past, Nortel used one-way pagers to send out mass alerts to technicians, who trekked across a factory floor the size of two football fields to a terminal to see if the problem was theirs to fix.
A little history: in the 1980's a genius company of engineers leveraged skills built over decades of designing cool electronics like car radios and pagers to come out with the world's first cell phone, the DynaTAC from Motorola.
Incongruously, in the midst of the shooting, the army sent out two pager messages that were at odds with what was happening on the ground at the junction.
