, founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa,ACCESS Company Profile, ACCESS. 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 company makes the NetFront software series,Eugenia Loli-Queru. Introduction to Phone Web Browsers in OSnews, January 26, 2006. which has been deployed in over 1 billion devices, representing over 2,000 models, as of the end of January 2011,Kamada, Tomihasa and which has been used as a principal element of the widely successful i-mode data service of NTT DoCoMo in Japan. NetFront is also used by many consumer electronic devices beyond mobile phones, such as the Sony PSP and the Amazon Kindle, both of which have their web browsers powered by NetFront. In addition, the NetFront Browser and related products are used on a wide variety of mobile phones, including those from Nokia, Samsung, LG Corp., Motorola, Sony Ericsson and others.
In September 2005, ACCESS acquired PalmSource,Ryan Kairer, PalmSource Acquired By ACCESS, PalmInfocenter, September 8, 2005 ACCESS Completes Acquisition of PalmSource ACCESS press release, November 14, 2005. the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. The company used those assets and expertise to create the Access Linux Platform, an open-source Linux-based platform for smartphones and other mobile devices, with some proprietary parts including the user interface and some middleware. The Access Linux Platform 3.0 was released to the market in October 2008.Brad Linder. ACCESS Linux Platform 3.0 released: Yes it's another mobile phone OS, DownloadSquad, October 24, 2008. Two of the world's largest operators, NTT DoCoMoJapan's DoCoMo Developing Mobile Linux Operator Pack in MobileLinuxInfo, April 21, 2008 and Orange,Ed Hardy. Orange Releasing ALP-Powered Smartphone this Summer on Brighthand.com, February 13, 2008. produced Access Linux Platform-based handsets until 2013.
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 to Acquire IP Infusion Inc. in Wireless Watch Japan, March 3, 2006.
ACCESS is active in open source-related efforts, including memberships in the Linux Foundation and the Linux Phone Standards Forum. In 2007, ACCESS employees presented at GUADEC (which the company also sponsored)Sponsors | Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Website and the Ottawa Linux Symposium.Talks | Ottawa Linux Symposium Presentation Listings for 2007
, ACCESS employs approximately 657 people globally, with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and facilities in the United States (Sunnyvale), Germany (Oberhausen), Korea (Seoul), the PRC (Beijing) and Taiwan (Taipei).ACCESS: Global Offices
The company reported consolidated revenues of ¥9.4 billion for the fiscal year ending January 2020.
See also Qtopia Symbian OS Windows Mobile
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IP Infusion