ACCESS Develops Browser for SHARP PDA Based on Java/Linux; ACCESS and Sharp Demonstrate Trial Version at JavaOne 2001.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001 ACCESS Co., Ltd., a leading provider of embedded Internet software solutions, announced a new version of it's flagship NetFront(R) Internet browser See Web browser. for Sharp's new Java/Linux based PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . This new international version prototype of the company's PDA, running the ACCESS Internet browser, will be demonstrated in Sharp's booth (No. 613) and at ACCESS' booth (No. 1316) at the JavaOne 2001 conference in San Francisco, Calif. "We are very interested in NetFront as an essential component of our new PDA. NetFront's performance and reliability have been proven in millions of information appliances sold in the market and we expect it to become the key application for our PDA in enabling the networking functions," said Hiroshi Uno, Division General Manager of Sharp Mobile Systems Division. Sharp's Zaurus is the most popular PDA in Japan, with total shipments of over two million units since its introduction in 1993. In March of this year, Sharp announced that it will target the worldwide market with this new PDA by supporting Linux and Java. Sharp expects to ship this product later this fall. "We're very excited to announce NetFront on this new attractive device. We believe our know-how and experiences that we accumulated, with our hardware partners, in the Japanese Internet appliance Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. market can be leveraged in extending the 'Ubiquitous Internet' to the world," stated Toru Arakawa, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ACCESS. Specifically designed for embedded applications, this multi-platform Internet software module is incorporated into televisions, set-top boxes, PDAs, dedicated word processors, web phones, Intranet terminals, video game consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. , smart phones, e-mail terminals, car navigation systems and kiosk terminals. NetFront has been optimized to deliver maximum performance with limited hardware resources. It offers a low-power, low-cost solution that works with any operating system or CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . Its user interface can be easily customized. The initial NetFront browser on this prototype version, which will be demonstrated at JavaOne 2001, is based on NetFront version 2.6, and it supports JavaScript, cookies, and the HTML-based CSE (Certified Systems Engineer) See Microsoft certification. (Client Side Extension) application extension structure. Other standard features supported in NetFront 2.6, such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. , web printing, multilingual capabilities, and other plug-in modules will be added in future revisions. This announcement is part of ACCESS' new strategy to work closely with Japanese information appliance manufacturers as they extend their product reach overseas. About ACCESS ACCESS Co. Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange Main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo. It opened in 1878 to provide a market for the trading of government bonds newly issued to former samurai. : 4813) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with ACCESS Systems America, its US subsidiary, in Milpitas, California. ACCESS, which went public on Mothers, Tokyo Stock Exchange on February 26, 2001, is a leading provider of innovative embedded software solutions for Internet appliances. The company's embedded browser software powers over 120 different commercial products including televisions, set top boxes, game consoles, PDAs, word processing machines, car navigation systems, web phones, kiosk terminals and intranet terminals. ACCESS's Compact NetFront micro browser software is most widely deployed in phones for NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform DoCoMo's i-mode. Over 35 million commercial software licenses have been shipped from more than 40 major consumer appliance manufacturers. More information is available at http://www.access-us-inc.com and http://www.access.co.jp. This press release is not an offer of any securities of ACCESS Co., Ltd. for sale in the United States. Such securities have not been registered in the United States under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent such registration or an exemption there from. Note to Editors: NetFront, Compact NetFront, JV-Lite, AVE, and AVE-TCP are registered trademarks owned by ACCESS Co., Ltd. in Japan. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. NetFront is a registered trademark of NetFront Communications, Inc. in the United States and is used under a license. i-mode is a trademark of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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