Islamic militants have developed sophisticated ways of spreading propaganda via mobile, a study suggests.
Researchers found jihadists were compiling packages of information designed to be received on smartphones.
They contained copies of videos, songs, speeches and images that followers are encouraged to pass on.
Some were using Bluetooth short-range radio technology to anonymously spread information to potential supporters.
The study was led by German researcher Nico Prucha who has spent seven years cataloguing the materials put online by Jihadists.
Mr Prucha said that without technologies such as the web and mobile phones, al-Qaeda may well have withered a long time ago.
"It’s the only way for them to remain part of the debate," he said. "Without it they would be isolated like they were in the 1980s."
Mr Prucha said that before the rise of the internet it was difficult for those interested in al-Qaeda or other militant groups to find information.
via BBC News – Jihadists use mobiles as propaganda tools. What a stupid article, if it was the 1980’s we would all be as isolated as if it was the 1980’s. Any technology can be just as equally used by terrorists or criminals, in the same manner as we use it.