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, founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa,〔(ACCESS Company Profile ), ACCESS. 〕 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,〔Eugenia Loli-Queru. (Introduction to Phone Web Browsers ) in ''OSnews'', January 26, 2006. 〕 which has been deployed in over 1 billion devices, representing over 2,000 models, as of the end of January 2011,〔(Kamada, Tomihasa )〕 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,〔Ryan Kairer, (PalmSource Acquired By ACCESS ), PalmInfocenter, September 8, 2005 〕〔(ACCESS Completes Acquisition of PalmSource ) ACCESS press release, November 14, 2005. 〕 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ACCESS & Open Source FAQs )〕 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.〔Brad Linder. (ACCESS Linux Platform 3.0 released: Yes it's another mobile phone OS ), DownloadSquad, October 24, 2008. 〕 Two of the world's largest operators, NTT DoCoMo〔(Japan’s DoCoMo Developing Mobile Linux Operator Pack ) in MobileLinuxInfo, April 21, 2008 〕 and Orange,〔Ed Hardy. (Orange Releasing ALP-Powered Smartphone this Summer ) on Brighthand.com, February 13, 2008. 〕 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.〔(ACCESS to Acquire IP Infusion Inc. ) in ''Wireless Watch Japan'', March 3, 2006. 〕 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)〔(Sponsors | Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Website ) 〕 and the Ottawa Linux Symposium.〔(Talks | Ottawa Linux Symposium Presentation Listings for 2007 ) 〕 , ACCESS employs approximately 615 people globally,〔 with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and facilities in the USA (Sunnyvale), Germany (Oberhausen), Korea (Seoul), the PRC (Beijing), Taiwan (Taipei) and Indonesia (Jakarta) .〔(ACCESS: Global Offices ) 〕 The company reports consolidated revenues of ¥11.7 billion (for the fiscal year ending January 2013).〔 ==History== 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Access (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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