Access Co.
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry |
Mobile software Smart TV software Automotive software Digital Publishing Next Generation Networks |
| Founder | Toru Arakawa and Tomihisa Kamada |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Nobuya Murofushi (CEO) Koichi Narasaki (COO) Kunihiro Ishiguro (CTO) |
| Products | NetFront |
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Number of employees
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615 |
| Subsidiaries | ACCESS (Beijing) Co., Ltd. ACCESS Seoul Co., Ltd. ACCESS CO., LTD. Taiwan Office ACCESS Europe GmbH IP Infusion Inc. PT ACCESS ASIA PACIFIC INDONESIA |
| Website | access-company |
ACCESS CO., LTD. (株式会社ACCESS Kabushiki-gaisha Akusesu?), 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 company has gained wide recognition for its NetFront software series, which has been deployed in over 1 billion devices, representing over 2,000 models, as of the end of January 2011, 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 a large number of 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, the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. The company has used these 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. Two of the world's largest operators, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, have announced support for Access Linux Platform-based handsets.
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