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Jangl's SMS Lets Customers Send and Receive Text Messages from Any

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a ClickPLEASANTON, Calif.--(Business Wire)--Jangl, Inc., the company connecting millions of online profilesand mobile phones, safely and privately, today debuted a major upgradeto its free service, enabling a text messaging capability thatcleverly connects mobile handsets and personal computers for free SMS.Additionally, Jangl is adding options that let consumers of all agesstay safe, save money, and easily connect their online networks totheir phones. Together with its current service, today's launch means that Janglcustomers can now:

-- Be private: By talking, exchanging voicemails, and now -- Be private: By talking, exchanging voicemails, and now

swapping text messages -- on any phone or personal computer --

without ever sharing their private phone number;

-- Save money: By eliminating some text messaging fees and -- Save money: By eliminating some text messaging fees and

drastically reducing most long distance calling charges, and;

-- Stay connected: With anyone, anywhere, with or without your -- Stay connected: With anyone, anywhere, with or without your

phone, easily adding friends to your Jangl network and

choosing when and how they can connect with you. In offering its new text message-enabled service, Jangl taps ahuge market. According to leading technology analyst firm Gartner,about 936 billion SMS messages were sent worldwide in 2005, and thatnumber will approach 2.3 trillion in 2010.(1) Nearly all new mobilephones available today are SMS-enabled, according to CTIA.(2) The addition of SMS capability reaffirms Jangl as the leader inbridging the web and the phone by broadening the company's offeringbeyond voice and voicemail, and -- when combined with other featuresrecently released -- strengthens Jangl's value proposition for mobileconsumers with active lifestyles on the social web. Jangl's technologyalready connects 40+ million online profiles with mobile devices dueto its customized, in-context service integrations with some of theweb's top social networking and online personals sites. "Jangl's contextual utility in social networks has been enhancedsignificantly in this latest service release," said Michael Cerda, CEOand co-founder of Jangl, Inc. "For several months, our loyal customershave been asking us to develop a text solution that would enable themto stop toggling keyboards and text quickly and efficiently with allof their online friends, while, at the same time, continuing todeliver on the most popular customer benefits of Jangl services - costsavings, privacy and safety. With today's debut, we connect a morediverse group of people and, in turn, dramatically expand our partnerofferings and our revenue potential. In the near-future, we'll detailhow Jangl will work with brand marketers to let millions enjoy all ofthese features and functionality at little or no cost to theend-user." SMS and Jangl Jangl already uses local phone numbers to route calls andvoicemails to customers' mobile phones. For its fast-growingpopulation of customers using Jangl in social networks, Jangl alsodelivers MP3 voicemail messages to personal email accounts andmessaging centers within the world's largest and most popular socialnetworks, like facebook. With Jangl's new SMS capability, consumers can use those samephone numbers to exchange text messages with their contacts. Jangl'snew features address key customer use cases described by Jangl'ers,including: singles seeking mates in privacy; teenagers staying safelyconnected and conserving their texting plan minutes, and mobile socialnetworkers who want to talk or text with online friends.

-- Jangl phone numbers can be used for direct, phone-to-phone SMS -- Jangl phone numbers can be used for direct, phone-to-phone SMS

messaging, keeping both parties' real phone numbers completely

private;

-- Text messaging can be initiated from either a PC or a phone, -- Text messaging can be initiated from either a PC or a phone,

and can be delivered to either;