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¡Hola!
Media Group Announces Launch of Free Unlimited Voice Communication
Over the Internet
Service to target millions
of Spanish speaking people around the world
Little Rock, AR--Mountain
View, CA, and Austin, TX--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--March 15, 2006--¡Hola!
Media Group, LLC, a bi-lingual media company, announced today
that it has partnered with PeerMe, Inc, a peer-to-peer voice communication
technology company, to provide free, unlimited voice communications
over the Internet to Spanish speaking internet users world-wide.
Targeting users in the United States, Spain, Central and Latin
America, the Spanish version joins the previously available English,
Japanese, Korean, and Chinese versions.
The easily downloaded
software will be immediately available through ¡Hola!’s
websites and will be integrated into new services including the
web and print classifieds, dating, real estate and advertisements
sections bringing a new dimension and value added service to readers
and advertisers.
PeerMe has developed
a peer-to-peer voice and instant messaging environment supporting
PC-to-PC and PC-to-handheld voice communications and instant messaging
over public Internet connections. PeerMe’s technology can
be used independently by users connecting on a peer-to-peer basis
or integrated into Web communities bringing a new generation of
interactive connectivity to users. Using industry standard protocols,
PeerMe's peer-to-peer voice system provides sound quality almost
equal to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), free and unlimited
to any Internet connected PC user worldwide.
“We are excited
to partner with ¡Hola! Media Group to bring PeerMe’s
technology to the Spanish speaking Internet user, as they are
the fastest growing population in the United States and in the
world, with many family ties in and outside the United States.
The Latin American population can easily benefit from PeerMe’s
free and easy to use voice services,” said Tom Lasater,
founder and CEO of PeerMe. “PeerMe is committed to enabling
online communities and helping to bring people around the world
together through the use of our easy-to-use technology. What sets
PeerMe apart is our technology, which is aimed at voice enabling
the Internet,” said Lasater.
Announcing the enhancement of the ¡Hola! Spanish portal,
Maura Lozano-Yancy, founder and CEO of ¡Hola! Media Group,
said, “we’re proud to be the leader in this area.
With the availability of free and easy downloads, either through
our bi-lingual Hola! Portal, http://www.Hola-Connect.us or directly
at http://www.PeerMe.com/Hola, we can supply world-wide to Spanish-dominant
or English-dominant Internet users with free PC to PC calling
and instant messaging services. Keep in mind that multi-language
options are also available, the Spanish version joins the previously
available English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese versions, ”
said Lozano-Yancy.
“Similar to the
impact of mobile telephones, the software available at http://www.PeerMe.com/Hola
and http://www.Hola-Connect.us allows computer users to communicate
with their network of friends, family and colleagues anywhere,
anytime – free “en Español” or in their
language of choice.” PeerMe’s design integrated into
the ¡Hola! Spanish and bi-lingual portals delivers a solution
with our community in mind, it can be a purely Spanish or purely
bi-lingual language experience," said Lozano-Yancy.
"This launch is
a significant step in our communications expansion plan. In conjunction
with the launch of the ¡Hola! Spanish portal we are looking
forward to the integration of PeerMe’s technology into the
¡Hola! portal’s as a voice tag for classified and
advertising,” said Michael Yancy, ¡Hola! Arkansas
Hispanic Media & Publishing Co., LLC, VP of Business Development.
About PeerMe, Inc.
Founded in 2004, PeerMe, Inc., http://www.PeerMe.com, is a privately
held international peer-to-peer communications technology company
with offices in Mountain View, Calif., Tokyo, Japan, South Korea,
China, India, Bulgaria and Austin, Tex. PeerMe has developed a
peer-to-peer voice and instant messaging platform, which supports
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) PC-to-PC and PC-to handheld
voice communications, instant messaging, and peer-to-peer file
transfer over public Internet connections. PeerMe’s vision
is to bring a human connection to the Internet through voice-enabling
the Web.
About ¡Hola!
Media Group, LLC
¡Hola! Media Group, LLC, is a media and publishing company
specialized in bi-lingual communications. Through its operating
subsidiaries, ¡Hola! Arkansas, ¡Hola! Media Group’s
initial publishing property, founded in October 2000, Internet
news portal (http://www.Hola-Arkansas.com), ¡Hola! Media
Group was created to promote and strengthening collaboration,
exchange and understanding among people who were born in the United
States and those who have immigrated. Other ¡Hola! Media
Group company’s interests and brands include ¡Hola!
Connect(TM), (http://www.Hola-Connect.Us)(TM), and Hola! ResearchPAYS(TM),
(http://www.Hola-ResearchPAYS.com) a Hispanic market research
and consumer survey group focused on Hispanic and Latino culture.
NOTE TO EDITORS: High-resolution
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CONTACT:
¡Hola! Media Group, LLC
Maura Lozano-Yancy
(877) 568-1206
publisher@hola-arkansas.com
or
PeerMe, Inc
Michael Romanies
(512) 832-9995
Mike@PeerMe.com
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