Access (company)

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Japanese software company

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Field	Value
name	ACCESS CO., LTD.
logo	Access logo.svg
type	Public
traded_as
foundation
founder	Toru Arakawa and Tomihisa Kamada
location_city	Tokyo
location_country	Japan
area_served	Worldwide
key_people	Kiyo Oishi (CEO)
Michi Uematsu (CTO)
industry	Mobile software
Smart TV software
Automotive software
Digital Publishing
Next Generation Networks
products	NetFront
num_employees	657
subsid	ACCESS (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
ACCESS Seoul Co., Ltd.
ACCESS CO., LTD. Taiwan Office
ACCESS Europe GmbH
IP Infusion Inc.
homepage
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ACCESS CO., LTD., 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 makes the 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 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, 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. Two of the world's largest operators, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, 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 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) and the Ottawa Linux Symposium.

, ACCESS employs approximately 657 people globally,

The company reported consolidated revenues of ¥9.4 billion for the fiscal year ending January 2020.

References

[http://www.access-company.com/about/index.html ACCESS Company Profile], ACCESS. {{webarchive. link. (July 22, 2012)
Eugenia Loli-Queru. [http://www.osnews.com/story/13446 Introduction to Phone Web Browsers] in ''OSnews'', January 26, 2006. {{webarchive. link. (November 10, 2013)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726143545/http://www.access-company.com/news/press/ACCESS/2011/20110214a_nf1b.html Kamada, Tomihasa]
link. (January 7, 2014)
[http://www.access-company.com/news/press/PalmSource/2005/111405_access.html ACCESS Completes Acquisition of PalmSource] ACCESS [[press release]], November 14, 2005. {{webarchive. link. (June 20, 2012)
"ACCESS & Open Source FAQs".
The Access Linux Platform 3.0 was released to the market in October 2008.Brad Linder. [http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/24/access-linux-platform-3-0-released-yes-its-another-mobile-phon/ ACCESS Linux Platform 3.0 released: Yes it's another mobile phone OS], DownloadSquad, October 24, 2008. {{webarchive. link. (August 21, 2009)
[http://www.mobilelinuxinfo.com/533/japans-docomo-developing-mobile-linux-operator-pack/#more-533 Japan's DoCoMo Developing Mobile Linux Operator Pack] in MobileLinuxInfo, April 21, 2008 {{webarchive. link. (January 4, 2011)
link. (January 7, 2014)
[http://wirelesswatch.jp/2006/03/03/access-to-acquire-ip-infusion-inc/ ACCESS to Acquire IP Infusion Inc.] in ''Wireless Watch Japan'', March 3, 2006. {{webarchive. link. (April 19, 2012)
[http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/node/36 Sponsors. Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Website] {{webarchive. link. (March 25, 2014)
Ottawa Linux Symposium Presentation Listings for 2007] {{webarchive. link. (March 6, 2012)
with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and facilities in the United States (Sunnyvale), Germany (Oberhausen), Korea (Seoul), the PRC (Beijing) and Taiwan (Taipei).[http://www.access-company.com/about/global/index.html ACCESS: Global Offices] {{webarchive. link. (July 14, 2012)

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