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Facilitating friendships

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YOU might pass the love of your life in the street and never know. But what if your cellphones had exchanged photographs and a few crucial details that suggested you were a match as soon as you were within a few metres of each other? All you would have to do was make the first move.

Hard on the heels of online dating, comes wireless dating. The idea is simple. Would-be daters simply subscribe to a service which stores a personal profile and information on what they want most from a partner. When there…

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