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Interactive Pager

The Inter@ctive Pager is a discontinued two-way pager released in 1996 by Research In Motion (later known for the BlackBerry line of smartphones) that allowed users to receive and send messages via the Mobitex wireless network. The US operator of Mobitex, RAM Mobile Data, introduced the Inter@ctive Pager service as RAMfirst Interactive Paging. The device was named '1997 Top Product' by the magazine Wireless for the Corporate User. It is also known as the RIM-900. The device is credited with introducing features such as peer-to-peer delivery, read receipts, sending faxes to phones and text-to-speech technology. In August 1998, BellSouth Wireless Data replaced the RIM-900 with the BlackBerry 950 and marketed the service as BellSouth Interactive Paging.

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The Inter@ctive Pager is a discontinued two-way pager released in 1996 by Research In Motion (later known for the BlackBerry line of smartphones) that allowed users to receive and send messages via the Mobitex wireless network. The US operator of Mobitex, RAM Mobile Data, introduced the Inter@ctive Pager service as RAMfirst Interactive Paging. The device was named '1997 Top Product' by the magazine Wireless for the Corporate User. It is also known as the RIM-900. The device is credited with introducing features such as peer-to-peer delivery, read receipts, sending faxes to phones and text-to-speech technology. In August 1998, BellSouth Wireless Data replaced the RIM-900 with the BlackBerry 950 and marketed the service as BellSouth Interactive Paging.

Key claims

  1. release date: 1996 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the release date is "1996". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343369069

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