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WICHITA, KANSAS (MARKET WIRE) easyhome Ltd. (TSX: EH):

LONDON (MARKET WIRE) Optimus (http://www.optimus.pt), one of the leading telecommunication service providers in Portugal, has teamed up with GetJar (http://www.getjar.com) to launch a free mobile app store that is available to its Optimus customers via both WAP and Web sites. By adopting GetJar's mobile app store service, Optimus has joined other major operators across the UK, europe and Asia in offering consumers the broadest choice of free, high-quality mobile applications.

PORTLAND, OR (MARKET WIRE) CompanionLink software, a leader in mobile synchronization solutions, was the first to release two-way synchronization for Microsoft Outlook contacts, calendar, and tasks with Google. CompanionLink for Google has more features, includes free live technical support, and is compatible with more versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook than the Google Calendar Sync tool developed by Google.

DEERFIELD BEACH, FL (MARKET WIRE) CHDT Corp., a Florida corporation (OTCBB: CHDO), ("CHDT" or "Company") and a management company with operating subsidiaries focused on designing and manufacturing consumer products for the North American retail market, will begin a strategic institutional investor relations and financial communications program. The first presentation will take place at the Private Equity Forum located at the Yale Club in New York City on november 20, 2008.

SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) Adapx (www.adapx.com), the company that is changing the way teams collaborate and collect data, today announced the general availability of Capturx(TM) Forms for Excel(R). Only Capturx enables non-technical teams to create forms in Excel, print them on ordinary paper, and have the handwritten data automatically converted back into the original Excel fields using digital pens. Capturx Forms for Excel can speed up a range of paper-based workflows, including order entry, inspections, service requests, audits, change orders, punch lists, asset reports, and more. Teams get immediate access to

SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Cadence design systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced the planned first quarter 2009 availability of new Open Verification Methodology (OVM) verification IP (VIP) for two key high-speed protocols: USB 3.0 and PCI Express 3.0. The new Cadence(R) VIP will help increase productivity, predictability and quality for users designing these new high-speed serial protocols into IP or system on chip (SoC). This announcement comes one month after Cadence announced it had expanded by five times its VIP portfolio to now include over 30 standard

SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Power Forward Initiative (PFI) today announced that LSI (NYSE: LSI) has joined the initiative in order to collaborate with other industry leaders to advance the state-of-the-art in low-power design. PFI membership has grown to more than 35 companies from around the world who represent a broad spectrum of semiconductor, IP, EDA, ASIC, design services and manufacturing providers.