Access Does Mobile Linux

BARCELONA -- ACCESS CO., LTD. today reinforced its leadership in the mobile industry with announcements supporting joint initiatives to deliver Linux-based platforms for mobile devices. Just one year after releasing the Product Development Kit for its ACCESS Linux Platform to licensees and partners, the Company confirmed that the platform will power the first open, mobile Linux handset for Orange. The new handset, expected to be available to Orange customers later this year, will be produced by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and will give Orange customers the full benefits of the ACCESS Linux Platform, including an innovative and user-friendly Interface design, access to thousands of off-the-shelf Garnet(TM) OS-based applications available immediately, and integrated communication between applications, enabling a seamless user experience for music, messaging and other advanced features.

In a move to help unify the mobile Linux industry and further enable time-to-market development of open devices, ACCESS also announced that it has joined the LiMo Foundation as a Core member and will hold a seat on the LiMo Foundation board. In recognition of ACCESS' proven track record with the developer community of successfully bringing to market its ACCESS Linux Platform Software Development Kit (SDK), ACCESS is spearheading the team tasked with developing the LiMo Foundation's native Linux SDK suite.

ACCESS further announced the availability of the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite (including SDK and Tools) via a newly-created developer portal designed to provide support and services for third party Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite is immediately available free of charge to all registered members of the ACCESS Developer Network at http://accessdevnet.com/.

As evidence of the continued momentum behind ACCESS solutions, eleven new members were added to the growing roster of companies in the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem (ACE) global partner program, bringing total membership to 85. The ACE partner program, which was launched at 3GSM World Congress 2007, represents a network of world-class partners developing and promoting new converged technologies and solutions in concert with ACCESS.

"ACCESS is dedicated to driving industry momentum to enhance the growth of the mobile Linux platform," said Toru Arakawa, ACCESS CEO, president and co-founder. "The marketplace is rapidly moving towards a complete and seamless experience for users of Internet-enabled devices. An open platform and open Internet are vital to this convergence, and ACCESS will continue to be a leader in helping our partners bring applications, content and services to converged devices around the world."

In a separate release:

BARCELONA -- ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today strengthened its commitment to place emphasis on cooperation among mobile industry players with the addition of eleven new partners to its ACCESS Connect Ecosystem (ACE) partner programme. The ACE partner programme is designed to create a network of world-class partners that will develop the potential of the digital life generation by driving development and adoption of new mobile converged technologies and solutions. In its first year, the ACE partner programme has rapidly grown to include 85 members.

“Since its creation one year ago, the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem partner programme has successfully brought to market innovative solutions from ACE members and ACCESS to our joint customers,” said Toru Arakawa, ACCESS CEO, president and co-founder. “The ACE programme gives our customers a competitive advantage to easily and quickly deploy open platform and open Internet solutions, and we are very pleased to add each of these eleven new ACE members who will continue to increase our support in the global promotion of convergence and the digital life generation.”

New Global Partners

Arphic (http://www.arphic.com), established in 1990, is a leading developer and provider of embedded systems’ font solutions. Arphic's superior stroke-based font technology generates the Arphic Mobile Font® and HiFont compact, high-speed and high-quality Asian font solutions for embedded systems to support global languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Arabic and Thai.

Chosen Security (www.chosensecurity.com) is the leading provider of on-demand PKI (public key infrastructure) security services in the world, enabling a wide range of PKI-enabled security services for enterprise authentication, secure e-mail and digital signatures. Cyberon (www.cyberon.com.tw) headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading embedded speech and distributed speech recognition solutions provider. Cyberon's solutions are developed specifically for mobile and portable devices to provide users a convenient, natural and reliable user experience. More than 30 million mobile and portable products embedded with Cyberon solutions support 30 different languages worldwide.

Digital Aria (www.digitalaria.com) provides the state of the art technology, Mobile Flash platform. Mobile Flash provides operators and OEMs the powerful GUI framework to create rich-media user experiences along with FLV content playback.

Entrust Japan Co., Ltd. (http://japan.entrust.com) is the Japan office of Entrust, Inc. Entrust Japan provides Entrust’s products, professional services and customer support for the Japanese market. Entrust [NASDAQ: ENTU] secures digital identities and information for consumers, enterprises and governments in 1,700 organisations spanning 60 countries. Leveraging a layered security approach to address growing risks, Entrust solutions help secure the most common digital identity and information protection pain points in an organisation, including SSL, authentication, fraud detection, shared data protection and e-mail security.

EXPWAY (www.expway.fr) is the leading provider of electronic service guides (ESG) for rich content and TV services offered over mobile, broadband and broadcast networks. EXPWAY’s solutions FastESGT (electronic service guide –ESG- for mobile DVB-H and 3G networks) and FastEPGT (electronic programme guide -EPG- for IPTV and broadcast networks) enable operators to grow their revenues by promoting and differentiating their service offerings.

Gemini Mobile Technologies (www.geminimobile.com) is a leading developer of wireless software infrastructure. The company’s Hyperscale Technology is the foundation for its two products: a messaging platform, HyperScale Messaging Centre, and a community platform, eXplo. The company’s development efforts are distributed across China, Japan and the United States and it has offices in Asia and Europe.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Semiconductor Company (http://panasonic.net) NAVITIME (www.navitime.com) is a solution for true navigation. It keeps maps and time tables from around the world at hand at all times, instantly displaying your optimum total travel time whenever you set a destination, using any combination of means of travel you like - including train, airplane, bus, car, and walking. And NAVITIME is not just a guide for human travel: NAVITIME will make it possible to instantaneously calculate the time required for all sorts of travel, including goods and information.

Stratus Technologies Japan, Inc. (www.stratus.com) is a solutions provider focused on helping its customers achieve and sustain information systems that support their critical business processes. Stratus is a trusted solutions provider to customers in manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, financial services, public safety, transportation & logistics and other industries.

Wind River (www.windriver.com) is the global leader in device software optimisation (DSO), a holistic, enterprise-wide solution to the challenges generated by increasing complexity in developing and running device software. Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software better, faster, at lower cost and more reliably.

In a separate release:

BARCELONA -- ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today announced the immediate availability of the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite (SDK and Tools) via a newly-created developer portal designed to provide support and services for third party Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Successfully field-tested by select ISVs since early 2007, the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite has also been productively used by developers creating mobile applications for the Orange Application Package for ACCESS Linux Platform that is part of the Orange Signature strategy intended to deliver a consistent customer experience across a variety of devices and applications.

The ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite is now immediately available to all registered members of the ACCESS Developer Network (ADN). The ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite is a complete, integrated development environment (IDE) that leverages open source tools such as Eclipse and Glade, integrated and extended for the needs of mobile applications. The ALP Development Suite includes all the necessary components, tools, samples and documentation to develop, run, test and debug native applications for mobile devices based on the ACCESS Linux Platform. It includes:

• A complete Eclipse-based set of development tools
• The Glade 3 Interface Editor for GTK Apps
• The ACCESS Linux Platform Simulator which runs on the Linux desktop and provides seamless application debugging
• A Compilation Toolchain: gcc, linker and gdb
• The VirtualPhone Tool which simulates a carrier network for telephony applications
• Scratchbox, which enables command-line development and cross-compilation for ARM device targets
• Headers and libraries
• How-To Documentation and an Integrated API Reference

Also freely downloadable from the newly created ADN Portal is the ACCESS Garnet VM Compatibility Kit, a stand-alone kit enabling developers to test their ACCESS Garnet OS-based applications' compatibility with ACCESS Linux Platform. The ACCESS Garnet VM provides the ability to run existing ACCESS Garnet OS (formerly known as Palm OS Garnet) applications on the ACCESS Linux Platform.

“We have a great history building a successful developer ecosystem and supporting mobile developers,” said Larry Berkin, senior director developer ecosystem & technology acquisition, ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. “By making the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite and ACCESS Garnet VM Compatibility Kit freely available, we begin building and growing a robust mobile Linux application ecosystem benefiting developers, operators and handset manufacturers while providing end users a choice of market-ready applications.”

Access Co. Ltd.