NEWS RELEASE

Empower Technologies™ Corporation Taking New Investor Relations Initiative

Richmond, British Columbia – December 6, 2004 - Empower Technologies Corporation ("Empower") announced today they have decided to take a new investor relations initiative and as part of the process the company took the option, under the investor relations agreement with Renmark Investor Communications Inc., to have it expire as of November 30, 2004. Empower would like to thank Renmark for their efforts on behalf of the company in the area of investor relations.

Investor relations will be handled by the company commencing December 1, 2004. The company will formulate its new investor relations strategies after the first quarter of 2005 and further announcements will be made at that time.

 

About Empower Technologies

Founded in 2000, Empower Technologies is a provider of Linux-based embedded system technologies and solutions for the consumer electronics industry and the intelligent appliance market.

Empower is an innovative company that introduced to the world LinuxDA O/S, the first and only complete Palm® Handheld compatible Linux Operating System scaled down for the Motorola Dragonball CPU platform.  By uniting top professionals from within the computer industry and developing quality partnerships and strategic alliances, Empower is committed to being the leading provider of Linux-based embedded system technologies and solutions for consumer electronics manufacturers.

Empower’s brands are “LinuxDA” (www.linuxda.com) a Linux-based embedded operating system and “PowerPlay” (www.powerplaydevices.com) smart consumer electronics.