Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Declares ACCESS' NetFront Browser for Pocket PC Best Internet Browser -- Again; NetFront(TM) for Pocket PC with JV-Lite(TM)2, a Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Award Winner in 2004 Wins Again in 2005.TOKYO -- ACCESS Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:4813), a global provider of mobile content delivery and Internet access See how to access the Internet. technologies, today announced that its NetFront Internet browser See Web browser. for Pocket PC which includes JV-Lite2, a Sun authorized Java virtual machine A Java interpreter. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is software that converts the Java intermediate language (bytecode) into machine language and executes it. The original JVM came from the JavaSoft division of Sun. , has been selected as a winner in Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards 2005 competition. NetFront was declared the overall winner from among several competing solutions in the "Browsers and Web Utilities" category by a Smartphone & Pocket PC Board of Experts. Originally launched in 1997, Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine is recognized as one of the leading publications covering all things Windows Mobile including Pocket PCs, Smartphones, Portable Media Center, and Windows CE-based handhelds. ACCESS' NetFront browser is recognized as one of the most advanced and popular browsers in the world. NetFront provides a comprehensive feature-set that includes support for mobile Internet standards including HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. 4.01, XHTML Mobile Profile XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) is a hypertextual computer language standard designed specifically for mobile phones and other resource-constrained devices. It is an XHTML document type defined by the Open Mobile Alliance. XHTML-MP is derived from XHTML 1. , 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. v3.0 and more. NetFront also features unique technologies that make mobile Internet browsing highly responsive and intuitive like Rapid-Render(TM), a sophisticated incremental rendering technology that accelerates the presentation of Web pages and Smart-Fit Rendering(TM), a technology that intelligently renders Web pages to fit the screen width of mobile devices, eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling. "We are very pleased to be honored for the second year in a row with this prestigious award from Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine," said 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. "Winning back-to-back Best Software Awards is an excellent testament to ACCESS' continuing dedication to deliver the best possible mobile Internet browsing experience to users of the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile platform." About NetFront Browser NetFront browser recently surpassed 195 million deployments globally representing 650 unique devices ranging from mobile phones and PDAs to digital televisions, gaming consoles, and automobile telematics systems from major Internet device manufacturers. NetFront supports a wider range of operating systems than any competing browser including solutions for Palm(R) OS, Symbian OS, Linux OS, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Mobile/PocketPC and mobile handset environments like BREW(R). NetFront browser technology is used by the world's leading mobile operators, software providers and electronics manufacturers including Adobe, Alpine, Amoi, AT&T Wireless, Casio, Epson, Hitachi, Hutchinson 3G Group, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , KDDI, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , NTT DoCoMo, Mitsubishi, palmOne, PalmSource, Samsung, SANYO, Sharp, Sony, Telcel Venezuela, TCL See Tcl/Tk. Tcl - Tool Command Language , Toshiba, UTStarcom and more. About ACCESS ACCESS is a global provider of Internet technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets. Its NetFront browser, widely recognized as one of the most advanced Internet browsers in the world, is a cornerstone to the company's vision of enabling Internet access anywhere and on any device. NetFront technologies are delivering full Internet browsing and related services to next-generation mobile devices and consumer electronics ranging from digital TV to automobile telematics. For more information: www.access.co.jp or www.access-us-inc.com. ACCESS, NetFront and JV-Lite are trademarks or registered trademarks of ACCESS CO., LTD. in Japan and other countries. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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