industries . access co. ltd. type public traded as tyo 4813 industry mobile software smart tv software automotive software digital publishing next generation networks founder toru arakawa and tomihisa kamada headquarters tokyo japan area served worldwide key people nobuya murofushi ceo koichi narasaki coo kunihiro ishiguro cto products netfront number of employees 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.com access co. ltd. access kabushiki gaisha akusesu founded in april 1979 and incorporated in february 1984 in tokyo japan by arakawa toru and kamada tomihisa 1 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 2 which has been deployed in over 1 billion devices representing over 2 000 models as of the end of january 2011 3 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 . 3 in september 2005 access acquired palmsource 4 5 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 6 for smartphones and other mobile devices with some proprietary parts including the user interface and some middleware . 6 the access linux platform 3.0 was released to the market in october 2008 . 7 two of the world s largest operators ntt docomo 8 and orange 9 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 . 10 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 11 and the ottawa linux symposium . 12 as of january 2013 update access employs approximately 615 people globally 1 with headquarters in tokyo japan and facilities in the usa sunnyvale germany oberhausen korea seoul the prc beijing taiwan taipei and indonesia jakarta . 13 the company reports consolidated revenues of 11.7 billion for the fiscal year ending january 2013 . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 historical timeline 2 memberships 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit access was founded in april 1979 by toru arakawa and tomihisa kamada and has since grown into a global company with approximately 1 000 employees . access is headquartered in tokyo japan and has opened offices in the u.s. germany china korea taiwan and indonesia . incorporated in 1984 access stock is publicly traded on the tokyo stock exchange mother s index under the number 4813 . historical timeline edit apr 1979 access founded by toru arakawa and access announces netfront browser sep 1986 original tcp ip developed commercialized as ave tcp feb 1996 netfront introduced software for internet browsing installed in internet tvs and word processors feb 1998 compact netfront introduced the industry s first compact html browser for mobile phones feb 2001 access co. ltd. listed on tokyo stock exchange mothers index ticker code 4813 oct 2003 netfront browser surpasses 100 million deployments feb 2004 netfront mobile client suite introduced nov 2005 access acquires palmsource inc. apr 2006 access acquires ip infusion inc. jun 2006 access announces netfront living connect dec 2006 access oki and oki access technologies jointly develop netfront ims client package and netfront media player set industry s first commercial ims solution feb 2008 netfront deployments surpass 500 million worldwide may 2008 access unveils netfront ip connect home gateway middleware jul 2008 access launches mobile widget community site oct 2008 access pim solution selected by china telecom for mobile network construction dec 2008 netfront browser widget service provided to ntt docomo smartphones may 2009 comscore mobile confirms access netfront browser as most widely available handset browser in europe and u.s. jan 2010 access announces netfront browser v4 .0 feb 2010 access becomes member of hbbtv consortium feb 2010 access announces netfront for android nov 2010 access announces the release of netfront life an application series for end users feb 2011 netfront software series deployments surpass one billion worldwide feb 2011 access opens new digital publishing opportunities for content providers mar 2011 netfront browser is provided for nintendo 3ds jun 2011 access announces netfront browser nx oct 2011 access announces netfront bookreader dec 2012 netfront browser nx is provided for wii u game console memberships edit digital living network alliance hybrid broadcast broadband tv consortium digital transmission content protection genivi alliance infrared data association limo foundation sd association upnp world wide web consortium marlin trust management organization smart tv alliance international digital publishing forum bluetooth special interest group wi sun alliance see also edit qtopia symbian os windows mobile references edit a b c access company profile access . archived july 22 2012 at the wayback machine . eugenia loli queru . introduction to phone web browsers in osnews january 26 2006 . archived november 10 2013 at the wayback machine . a b kamada tomihasa ryan kairer palmsource acquired by access palminfocenter september 8 2005 archived january 7 2014 at the wayback machine . access completes acquisition of palmsource access press release november 14 2005 . archived june 20 2012 at the wayback machine . a b access & open source faqs . archived from the original on march 7 2012 . brad linder . access linux platform 3.0 released yes it s another mobile phone os downloadsquad october 24 2008 . archived august 21 2009 at the wayback machine . japan s docomo developing mobile linux operator pack in mobilelinuxinfo april 21 2008 archived january 4 2011 at the wayback machine . ed hardy . orange releasing alp powered smartphone this summer on brighthand.com february 13 2008 . archived january 7 2014 at the wayback machine . access to acquire ip infusion inc. in wireless watch japan march 3 2006 . archived april 19 2012 at the wayback machine . sponsors gran canaria desktop summit website archived march 25 2014 at the wayback machine . talks ottawa linux symposium presentation listings for 2007 archived march 6 2012 at the wayback machine . access global offices archived july 14 2012 at the wayback machine . external links edit official website ip infusion v t e open handset alliance mobile operators bouygues telecom china mobile china telecom china unicom kddi nepal telecom ntt docomo softbank mobile sprint corporation t mobile telecom italia telef nica telus vodafone software companies access ascender corporation ebay google myriad group nuance communications nxp software omron packetvideo svox visualon semiconductor companies akm semiconductor inc. arm holdings audience broadcom csr plc joined as sirf cypress semiconductor freescale semiconductor gemalto intel marvell technology group mediatek mips technologies nvidia qualcomm qualcomm atheros renesas electronics st ericsson joined as ericsson mobile platforms synaptics texas instruments handset makers acer inc. alcatel mobile phones asus chaudhary group association of lg cci dell foxconn garmin htc huawei kyocera lenovo mobile lg electronics motorola mobility nec corporation samsung electronics sharp corporation sony mobile communications toshiba zte commercialization companies accenture borqs sasken communication technologies teleca the astonishing tribe wind river systems wipro technologies see also android dalvik virtual machine google nexus t mobile g1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title access company & oldid 739334876 categories companies listed on the tokyo stock exchangecompanies established in 1979software companies of japanhidden categories articles with wayback machine linksuse mdy dates from may 2014articles containing japanese language textarticles containing potentially dated statements from january 2013all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article 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