Radio Paging

Hong Kong's Thomas Edison shows his smarts

19 Sep 2007

Smart Rich Energy Finance (Holdings) chairman Nelson Wong Kam-fu, who claims to have 468 patents for his various inventions, was thrust into the spotlight when Star Paging Communications, which...

5:23AM

You have mail - and it's making you stupid

24 Apr 2005

The advance of new technology has enhanced our lives in many different ways. We are now better informed, better connected, more productive - and generally switched on.

5:05PM

Unicom upgrades services

13 Jun 2002

China Unicom is to launch new information and data services in a bid to revitalise its struggling paging business.

3:39AM

End this selfishness

12 Apr 2002

If a public consultation into proposals to block mobile phone signals at performance venues reveals widespread support - as it surely ought to do - we could become the first place in the world...

9:46PM

Monitor

19 Jul 2001

I DO NOT profess to know exactly how many acres of unused industrial floor space we have at the moment but I do know it is better measured in acres than square feet and that the answer runs well...

3:07AM

Group Sense pagers dial red ink

5 Jul 2001

Group Sense (International) the consumer electronics group slid into the red in the year to March 31, had a net loss of HK$270.14 million due largely to losses in its pager business.

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2:02AM

Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Price-fix warning to phone firms

Mobile-phone companies have been warned they may be punished for raising charges one after another.

6:30AM

Prospectuses highlight flaws in GEM listings

Backspace, being a prudent investor, decided to check out the prospectuses issued in the past few weeks by some of the companies that listed on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market (GEM).

12:33AM

A deaf ear

That the Falun Gong sect remains lawful in Hong Kong despite being banned on the mainland has been rightly taken as a sign of the strength of China's commitment to one country, two systems.

7:57PM

New service hit by technical problems

Students have given the thumbs-down to a new paging and Internet service that offers up-to-date information on school places for Form Five graduates.

12:54PM

Pagers fail speed test for school vacancies

A paging service launched by the Education Department to help students in the rush for Form Six places was in disarray yesterday.

10:22AM

Lifeline for pager customers

Customers of two bankrupt paging firms breathed a sigh of relief last night after a new operator agreed to carry forward their pre-paid deposits.

8:54AM