ACCESS CO. , LTD. (株式会社ACCESS Kabushiki-gaisha Akusesu?) (TYO: 4813), founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa, is a company providing a variety of software for connected and mobile devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, video game consoles and set top boxes. The, or TSE, located in Tokyo, Japan, is the second largest Stock exchange market in the world by market value second only to the New York Stock officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A set-top box (STB or set-top unit (STU is a device that connects to a Television and an external source of signal, turning the signal into
The company has gained wide recognition for its NetFront browser product, which has been deployed in over 500 million devices, representing over 1,400 models, as of February 2008, and which has been used as a principal element of the widely successful i-mode data service of NTT DoCoMo in Japan. NetFront is a Microbrowser for embedded devices Mainly deployed on Mobile phones, NetFront is available for multiple platforms and has been deployed in A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text images videos music games and other information typically located on a NTT DoCoMo 's i-mode is a Wireless internet service popular in Japan. is the predominant Mobile phone operator in Japan The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase " do co mmunications over the mo bile network NetFront is also used by a large number of consumer electronic devices beyond mobile phones, such as the Sony PSP, Playstation 3 and the Amazon Kindle, both of which have their web browsers powered by NetFront. The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a Handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. In addition, the NetFront Browser and related products are used on a wide variety of mobile phones, including those from Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, NEC, Sony-Ericsson, and others. Nokia Corporation (pronunciation /'nɔkiɑ/),,) is a Finnish multinational Communications Corporation, headquartered The Samsung Group ( Korean:, Samsung Guerup) is South Korea 's largest company or Chaebol and the world's largest conglomerate SHARP may refer to Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice Super High Altitude Research Project, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity is a Japanese multinational IT company headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan. Sony Ericsson is a Joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese Consumer electronics Company Sony Corporation and the
In September 2005, ACCESS acquired PalmSource, the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. PalmSource, now known as ACCESS Systems Americas Inc is a subsidiary of ACCESS which develops the Palm OS PDA Operating system. Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is an embedded Operating system initially developed by U BeOS is an Operating system for Personal computers which began development by Be Inc The company has used these assets and expertise to create the ACCESS Linux Platform, an open source-based platform for "smart phones" and other mobile devices. The Access Linux Platform, sometime referred to as a "next-generation version of the Palm OS " is an open source-based Operating system for mobile devices The company says that it expects phones based on the ACCESS Linux Platform to be released to the market in the second half of 2008. Two of the world's largest operators, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, have announced support for ACCESS Linux Platform-based handsets.
In March 2006, ACCESS acquired IP Infusion, Inc. , a provider of intelligent networking software, providing Layer 2 and Layer 3 carrier-class switching and routing as well as a comprehensive forwarding plane implementation supporting L2, L3 (IPv4 & v6), multicast and MPLS/Traffic Engineering.
ACCESS is active in open source-related efforts, including memberships in the Linux Foundation, the Linux Phone Standards Forum, as well as being a member of the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board. The Linux Foundation ( LF) is a non-profit Consortium chartered to foster the growth of Linux. The Linux Phone Standards Forum ( LiPS Forum) is a Consortium created by a group of companies as an effort to create standards aimed at fostering the use The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Cambridge Massachusetts, United States coordinating the efforts in the GNOME project In 2007, ACCESS employees presented at GUADEC (which the company also sponsored) and the Ottawa Linux Symposium. The GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, ( GUADEC, also known as The GNOME Conference) is an annual conference taking place in Europe, whose
ACCESS employs approximately 1,600 people globally, in a variety of geographies, with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and facilities in the USA (Sunnyvale, CA), France (Montpellier), Germany (Oberhausen), Korea (Seoul), the PRC (Nanjing and Beijing) and Taiwan (Taipei).
The company reports consolidated revenues of ¥26. 1 billion (for the fiscal year ending January 2007).
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