Mobile phone services have become embroiled in the challenge of modern dating. Britain's dating agency launched a remote-viewing service of potential mates using your mobile phones.

For today's hi-tech lovers, video clips will take the place of formal introductions enabling the lovelorn to trawl through filmed personal messages from other lonely hearts, all recorded on and downloaded from their mobile telephones. The new service will begin within weeks.

Subscribers to Dateline's new mobile-matchmaking service will be subjected to a video interview, during which they will be questioned, apparently by their handset, in order to produce a one-minute film for an online database.

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