The San Diego Filipino

I received this press release:

CHERPLE.COM
LAUNCHED IN TAGALOG FOR PHILIPPINE USERS

–Free App That Allows Two-Way
Text Conversations Between U.S.
Cell Phones and On-Line Users Worldwide Now Easier to Use for Tagalog Speakers –

Cherple.com, a free Web application that
allows two-way text communication between on-line computers and U.S. mobile
cellular devices, is now available in Tagalog to make it even easier for Filipino
users to make use of the already popular service.  The Tagalog site can be found at
www.cherple.ph.

Globaltel Media Inc., the creators behind
the Cherple.com family of mobile products, says the new language-specific site
will make it easier for Tagalog speakers to have free, two-way PC to text
conversations with their friends and family in the U.S.  The original English version of Cherple.com
already has an international audience with the highest number of users coming
from the Philippines.  Language specific versions are in the works
for Korea, China, India,
Mexico and Brazil – all countries with high
Cherple.com user traffic.

“I live in the Philippines
with my family, but I also have relatives in the U.S.,”
said Jaimie Javier, a Cherple® user in Cavite.  “We have been using Cherple® English and
although it never affected the actual communication between my family in America, I
could not be more excited to use the site in my Tagalog. Now, I will be able
show the site to more of my family.  This
will be much easier for them to use and they are very eager to text chat with
our family in the U.S.”

Cherple’s ® patented technology provides any of the global 1.5 billion
on-line users with back-and-forth text-message conversations to any of the 3.3
billion wireless devices worldwide using standard SMS messaging.  SMS or Short Message Service is a standard
implemented by all wireless carriers and virtually all mobile devices.

Cherple® can be run directly from
www.cherple.ph.  To initiate a
conversation, the on-line user enters a friend or relative’s name and their US cell phone
number into the Cherple® application.  Within seconds a two-way “chat” is
initiated between the on-line user and a U.S.-based mobile cellular phone.  Standard text messaging rates apply to the
cell phone user, but there is no cost to the on-line user who initiates and
maintains the conversation.

Cherple® follows the Mobile Marketing
Association’s permission-based guidelines and is opt-in / opt-out
compliant.  For
more on Cherple.com, visit www.cherple.com.