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As 60% of sales happen during the second half of the year, the industry is pinning its last hopes on the festive season.

AUSTIN, TX (MARKET WIRE) NexTech Solutions, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NXSL) and FAS Holdings Group, LLC, jointly doing business as "NexTechFAS," are pleased to announce they are collaborating with Abbie Gregg, Inc. (AGI) in several engineering and technology innovations which are being utilized in the manufacturing of early stage organic photovoltaic (solar) and touch screen displays. These technology collaborations have resulted in significant orders by a leading developer of organic solar cells and RPO, a leading manufacturer of waveguide technology for touch screen displays. NexTechFAS' automated optical inspection and

LONDON (MARKET WIRE) Petel Incorporated (PINKSHEETS: PTEI), the Broadband TV and Digital Media specialists, today announce continued growth in revenue with an increase of 131% for Quarter 2 2008 over Quarter 1 2008.

City of industry, CA (MARKET WIRE) Newegg.com, leading online retailer of technology products, is gearing up to meet increased demand for hands-free cell phone headsets. Demand has more than doubled at Newegg since the announcement of recent changes in California law creating penalties for using hand-held cell phones while driving. Starting July 1, 2008, Californians are required to use a hands-free device with their phones while driving, which challenges customer centric retailers like newegg.com to gather and offer a broad spectrum of safe driving products.

FOOTHILL RANCH, CA (MARKET WIRE) Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading provider of Unified Communications solutions, today announced that the latest version of its flagship Unified Communications solution, CallXpress, is now generally available, having successfully completed a number of field trials. CallXpress 7.91 augments AVST's best-in-class Unified Communications platform, which offers industry leading features that improve communication, enhance collaboration and make employees more efficient. The latest version of CallXpress offers a host of new features, including enhanced digital

SAN DIEGO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Taxcient™ Inc., a provider of online solutions and services for sales and use tax compliance, today introduced a new innovation for vCERT Retail: the first-of-its-kind, in-store exemption certificate management system for locating, collecting and renewing tax exemption certificates in a retail store. The new system connects tax departments to retail locations, allowing retailers to instantly locate their customers' exemption certificate or to rapidly collect or update new ones at the time of sale. vCERT improves compliance and the customer experience because the customer's information

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (MARKET WIRE) Today Data Robotics launched the second generation of its award-winning Drobo product. Featuring FireWire 800 alongside improved USB 2.0 performance and an upgraded core processor, the new Drobo is the fastest product in its class for managing and storing digital information. The increased read and write performance now makes the product ideal for use as primary storage for media applications such as photography and video editing, as well as secondary storage.

SAN DIEGO, CA (MARKET WIRE) PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT) (www.pricesmart.com) today announced its results of operations for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 which ended on May 31, 2008.