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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| 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 | Kiyo Oishi (CEO) Michi Uematsu (CTO) |
| Products | NetFront |
Number of employees | 657 |
| Subsidiaries | ACCESS (Beijing) Co., Ltd. ACCESS Seoul Co., Ltd. ACCESS CO., LTD. Taiwan Office ACCESS Europe GmbH IP Infusion Inc. |
| Website | access-company |
ACCESS CO., LTD. (株式会社ACCESS,Kabushiki-gaisha Akusesu), founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 inTokyo,Japan, byArakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa,[1] is a company providing a variety of software for connected and mobile devices, such asmobile phones,PDAs,video game consoles andset top boxes.
The company makes theNetFront 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 successfuli-mode data service ofNTT DoCoMo in Japan. NetFront is also used by many consumer electronic devices beyond mobile phones, such as theSony PSP and theAmazon 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 fromNokia,Samsung,LG Corp.,Motorola,Sony Ericsson and others.[3]
In September 2005, ACCESS acquiredPalmSource,[4][5] the owner of thePalm OS andBeOS. The company used those assets and expertise to create theAccess Linux Platform, anopen-sourceLinux-based platform[6] forsmartphones 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] produced Access Linux Platform-based handsets until 2013.
In March 2006, ACCESS acquiredIP 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 theLinux Foundation and the Linux Phone Standards Forum. In 2007, ACCESS employees presented atGUADEC (which the company also sponsored)[11] and theOttawa Linux Symposium.[12]
As of January 2020[update], ACCESS employs approximately 657 people globally,[1] with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and facilities in the United States (Sunnyvale), Germany (Oberhausen), Korea (Seoul), the PRC (Beijing) and Taiwan (Taipei).[13]
The company reported consolidated revenues of ¥9.4 billion for the fiscal year ending January 2020.[1]