Written by 
Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group’s operations said this year. A pager is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays messages. Israel followed up the pager detonations with the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah […]
Pagers used by Hezbollah operatives exploded across Lebanon in supermarkets, on streets, and at funerals over two days last September. (AP pic) JERUSALEM: Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he okayed a deadly September attack on Hezbollah communications devices which exploded in Lebanon, the first time Israel has admitted involvement. Hezbollah had previously blamed […]
You’ve probably heard about how some people bemoan the degradation of literacy thanks to “txtspeak” which abbreviated words to avoid hitting the SMS character count cap. Although that may be a thing of the past now that we have longer limits and more flexible messaging services, a newer trend is to completely replace words with […]