Access (company)
| Access | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | JP3108060009 |
| founding | April 1979 |
| Seat |
Tokyo , Japan
|
| management | Toru Arakawa |
| Number of employees | 1,256 (January 2006) |
| sales | 17.26 billion yen (January 2006) |
| Website | Official Website (Europe) |
Access was founded in Tokyo in 1979 . The company has been a stock corporation since 1984. Access offers embedded software for network devices such as cell phones , PDAs , game consoles , smart TVs and set-top boxes .
Companies
The Access CO., LTD. earned great recognition for their NetFront web browser , which was working on over 200 million devices as of November 2005. The engine also served as the basis for the globally successful i-mode data service from NTT DoCoMo . The browser is also used in Sony's PSP (firmware version 2.0 or higher).
In September 2005, Access acquired PalmSource , the rights owner of Palm OS and BeOS , for $ 324 million. Since October 2006, both companies have been operating under the common name Access .
As part of the development and marketing of the partially proprietary Access Linux Platform , a Linux-based software platform for mobile devices, Access is a founding member of the Linux Phone Standards Forum and joined the LiMo Foundation on February 1, 2008 .
Web links
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- ↑ NetFront Browser on over 200 million devices: "NetFront browser deployed in over 200 million devices" ( Memento from November 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), press release on November 22, 2005
- ↑ Accent takes over Palmsource: “PalmSource takeover by Access in dry cloths” on heise.de , September 10, 2005
- ↑ PalmSource name change: "Access buries PalmSource" on Golem.de , October 12, 2006
- ↑ Access joins the LiMo Foundation: http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39186515,00.htm