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NetFront Expanding Into US

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NetFront™ Browser v3.5 Recently I spoke with representatives from Access Company, an international corporation headquartered in Japan that is well-known for working closely with the largest Japanese mobile carrier, Docomo. Access is a leader of software for mobile and other devices such as Sony’s PSP and Sony’s newest WiFi ready Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera announced earlier this year at CES 2009, which allows for photos to be wirelessly transferred to computers and televisions that are DLNA-capable. The company’s mobile software, which has concentrated mainly on a business-to-business level with electronics companies, has facilitated messaging, email, digital mobile television, digital radio, and widgets on devices from clamshell handsets from Motorola and Samsung  to phones like the Palm Centro, and Treo 600 Series for years. Now they are excited to announced that their NetFront line of software, such as the NetFront Mobile Browser, is poised for major expansion into the United States.

ACCESS Linux Platform™With a Research and Development team headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, we may be seeing Access Company’s NetFront software on more handsets out of the box in the United States. Access is also poised to continue moving further beyond mobile phones as they have with Amazon’s Kindle, for which they designed the interface that both facilitates a reader’s ability to peruse both eBooks and online complimentary content without detracting from the books themselves.

In Japan, Access has already begun to distribute their NetFront Browser in internet-ready Pioneer digital television. Access has also launched their Linux-based mobile platform, which is LiMo-compliant and endorsed by operators like Verizon in the US and Orange in Europe, and is already built on top of the Android interface in China.

According to Albert Chu, VP of Marketing and Alliances, Access Company will have an even bigger presence in the Unites States as early as next year as they “aspire to provide software for anything that connects to the internet” as they continue to “move beyond PC mobile phone category.”

Source: Access Company

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  • I thought you could buy the NetFront browser years ago. After Access bought PalmSource (or whatever it was called after Palm reabsorbed it), I assumed that was their U.S. team. Was I wrong?

    Also, again years ago, I recall Access claiming that more devices used their browsers than anybody else's. So while consumers may not have heard of them, PDA geeks should have been fairly aware of them.

    Steve
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    we were REAL close to getting netfront to be used on our mobile for work (security reasons, only pocket ie and netfront worked)

    management sat on it and we missed out!!!
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