Radio Pager Technologies:

JP Systems Licenses FLEX Technology

Sept. 2, 1997. PR Newswire reports that JP Systems, Inc. is now a worldwide licensee of FLEX(TM) one way and ReFLEX(TM) 25 two way paging protocols and has a new paging terminal which they intend to ship early in 1998.
[1997/09/06]

Paging Industry Growing

Aug. 22, 1997, PR Newswire reports that the Strategis Group has found that paging grew in the US in 1996 by 8.6 million new subscribers increasing the customer base to 43.1 million units in service by the end of 1996.
[1997/08/26]

Pager Market Up, Motorola Share Dropping

Aug. 11, 1997, Newsbytes reports that a research study from Frost & Sullivan shows that the pager market is growing but leading Motorola is loosing share. US revenues from pager and paging services rose 14.9% in 1996 was $4.32 billion over 1995. Future growth is estimated at 7% compounded through to 2003. Report 5419-65 is available from Frost & Sullivan for $2,750 US.

http://www.frost.com/
[1997/08/15]

PageMart Targets Women Buying Pagers for Families

July 23, 1997, PR Newswire reports that PageMart Wireless has agreed with 197 Bradlees discount stores to sell pages in the North Eastern US targeting women buying pagers for families.
[1997/07/26]

NMI Mobility Uses Motorola FLEX(TM) Paging In Northern Canada

July 21, 1997, PR Newswire reports that NMI Mobility will be using Motorola's FLEX technology for arctic region paging services in Northern Canada.
[1997/07/26]

GWcom Voyager Handset with Internet and Pager

Aug. 29, 1997, Newsbytes reports that GWcom Inc. has announced its new Voyager handset which combines paging functions and internet functions. The unit includes EMail send and receive and a Web Browser that handles a subset of HTML using a 13 line by 16 character display.
[1997/09/02]

MCI uses Motorola PageFinder Pagers

July 15, 1997, Business Wire reports that MCI will use Motorola PageFinder pagers for a new enhanced one-way paging service. The new service uses Assured Message Delivery to track and confirm delivery of all messages sent.

http://www.mot.com/pagers/
[1997/07/23]

Motorola Announces Smallest Pager w/Full Keyboard

Feb. 27, 1997, Business Wire reports that Motorola announced their new Pagewriter 250 2-way pager with 46 key QWERTY keyboard, 80 character scrolling display.
[1997/03/02]

Motorola FLEX Paging Protocol Support Chip

Feb. 12, 1997, BusinessWire reported that Motorola announced the 68175 FLEX (TM) paging protocol IC is now shipping in volume to customers. A development board 68175FDB will be coming for $175.00. Casio's NP-158 pager is based on this technology. [1997/02/18]

Ex Machina

Ex Machina is mainly a paging system producer but they wrote the PocketCall terminal emulator for the Newton, now in version 2.1.
http://www.exmachina.com/
[1997/08/14]