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BEDD is a new Bluetooth-enabled mobile social medium that allows people to meet, interact and communicate in a new way, letting their mobile phones do all the work as they go through their day. BEDD had its worldwide launch in Singapore on 22/23 May 2004.
"BEDD software searches automatically to meet people for friendship and dating, buying and selling and letting people know when their family and friends are close by, allowing users to then meet immediately via free Bluetooth chat messaging, SMS, MMS, Call, IM or Email.
"BEDD, a new communities application that is phone-to-phone not using any server and utilizing wireless Bluetooth technology, is literally bringing people together."
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Posted: 2004-06-09 15:10:47
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby.
She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan strangers' phones for their personal profiles.
The application joins a swelling number of Internet and mobile phone based services that offer to widen people's social networks.
Users download the BEDD software into a compatible phone, complete a short profile of themselves and include a description of who they want to befriend, or an item they want to buy or sell.
The software automatically searches for and exchanges profiles with other phones that come within a 20-meter (65 ft) radius. Matched users are given each other's contact details.
"I've become close with people that I've never known before, built up a close clique of friends whom I chill out with, sleep over at their homes and go for late suppers with," said Lim, 19.
The software, created by futures trader Stephen Carlton and Swedish engineer Olle Bliding about three years ago, was launched last month in Singapore and will be rolled out in most of Asia by year-end. It costs S$0.98 ($0.571) for 30 days of unlimited use.
BEDD differs from rival services in that it relies on phone-to-phone transmission, running on the short-range Bluetooth technology.
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Posted: 2004-06-23 21:52:39
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@axxxr - Cool one! just reminds me of the 'Tomagochi' thing way back. It's also like having a virtual pet, though this one is a fone.
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Posted: 2004-06-23 23:07:11
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Its for people that dont know how to get girls
They could use my Pimp services if they wanted at a discount price
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Posted: 2004-06-23 23:10:42
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