August 27, 2010 | Videonet TV
What next-gen DLNA means for service providers

It looks as it the customer premise is going to become a key battleground for service providers. Jörg Eggink, Product Manager Connected Home at ACCESS Systems Europe, considers Connected Home services that are needed for service providers to remain competitive and looks at how next-generation DLNA makes it easier for Pay TV operators to harness existing CE equipment in customer homes and so minimise their own CPAEX.

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August 27, 2010 | Videonet TV
The market for Connected TV & HBB

Connected TV and HBB have gained a lot of attention this year and in this interview, Dr. Neale Foster, VP, Sales & Business Development at ACCESS Systems Europe discusses whether they really have the potential to change the TV experience significantly, and what services broadcasters are most interested in delivering using Hybrid Broadcast and Broadband.

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August 11, 2010 | Broadband TV News
S&T gains ACCESS to HbbTV

Strategy & Technology (S&T) has signed a licensing agreement with ACCESS Systems Europe that will enable it to offer a complete HbbTV solution suitable for integration with any digital TV receiver. S&T has secured the rights to re-distribute ACCESS’ NetFront Browser and associated HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband) extensions.

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July 29, 2010 | Into Mobile
ACCESS Joins Open Handset Alliance to Make Android Big in Japan

Access, which just released the Graffiti handwriting recognition software for the Android mobile operating system made by Google, has joined the Open Handset Alliance in a move that should help the little, green robot do well in Japan.

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July 28, 2010 | PocketNow.com
Graffiti for Android

For those of you that have been using mobile devices for quite some time, this should be a treat! Graffiti, the text-input method for Palm OS devices, is now available for Android!

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July 20, 2010 | ZDNet
Blast From the Past; Graffiti for Android Now Available

I started using a Palm Pilot in 1997 and was very fast at text entry using the Graffiti handwriting recognition system. Many of us spent years perfecting our Graffiti skills and now ACCESS Co. LTD is bringing it back to life for the Google Android platform.

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July 20, 2010 | Brighthand.com
Graffiti Text Input System Jumps from Palm OS to Android OS

ACCESS has released a version of the Graffiti text input system for devices running Google's Android OS. Long-time Palm OS users should remember Graffiti from the days of the Palm TX or Tungsten E.

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July 20, 2010 | Softpedia
Graffiti Application Now Available for Android OS

Mobile Internet pioneer ACCESS Co. LTD. has announced the availability of Graffiti for Android. According to the company, this software was one of the most popular applications ever released for Palm's handsets, and still is one of the most appealing handwriting recognition applications available.

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July 19, 2010 | Into Mobile
Get That Old Palm Feeling on Android with Graffiti

If you want to get nostalgic, go ahead and use the QR code at the bottom of this post and get Graffiti for Android right now. This handwriting software will bring back tons of memories for Palm OS fans.

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April 12, 2010 | Mobile Development & Design
Mobile Browsers Everywhere Herald The Connected Society

We're rapidly evolving into a more mobile, always-connected, open Internet society. As we end the first and begin the second decade of the 21st century, we’re giving way to a fully connected digital lifestyle, turning yesterday's "Digital Generation" into today's "Connected Generation."

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February 17, 2010 | Download Squad
NetFront, Opera Web Browsers for Google Android on the Way

Mozilla isn't the only company itching to port its web browser to run on Google's Android operating system. Google announced recently that 60,000 handsets a day are now shipping with Android, and it seems like every day a device maker announces a new Android-based product. So while the WebKit-based browser that comes with Android is decent, it's good to see mobile browser makers looking to give Google a little competition in the browser space.

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February 16, 2010 | Android Guys
ACCESS Announces NetFront for Android

ACCESS CO., LTD., a company who specializes in helping carriers and handset makers speed up their time-to-market and develop best-in-class solutions, has announced that their NetFront technologies will now be supported for Android.

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February 16, 2010 | IDG News Service
Smartphone OS Leaves One Hand Free

Today's smartphones are too much of a handful, according to Israeli company Else: You either need to grab them with both hands and punch away at the keyboard with your thumbs, or you hold them with one hand and touch the screen with the other.

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February 16, 2010 | Into Mobile
ACCESS Unveils NetFront Technologies for Android, Web Browser Included

ACCESS, the company which you may know as the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS (Garnet) code owner, introduced its NetFront for Android. However, it’s not just a browser they are bringing to the platform — they are also unveiling a set of tools for operators and device manufacturers using which these parties will be able to deliver customized user experiences and pre-install additional apps for the end users.

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February 16, 2010 | Mobile Tech Today
ACCESS Announces NetFront Support for Android

ACCESS has announced that its NetFront™ series technologies will now support the Android platform. The announcement comes as part of the company’s strategy to extend NetFront capabilities to any OS or CPU.

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February 16, 2010 | Softpedia
Access' NetFront Browser Comes to Android

Leading provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile world, ACCESS CO., LTD., has recently announced that it plans on introducing support for Google's Android operating system in its NetFront series technologies, and that it will showcase them at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. According tot the company, this comes as part of its plans to make the solutions available on any OS or CPU.

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February 15, 2010 | Phone Scoop
ACCESS Introduces NetFront Browser for Android

Access today announced a new version of its NetFront browser for the Android platform. NetFront Browser 3.5 will be given to wireless network operators and handset makers and will allow them to customize the browser to meet their own branding and content/services needs. Accesss is also supporting Android with its FlexUI, widgets, document viewer, and EPUB Book Viewer.

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February 15, 2010 | Ubergizmo
ACCESS Announces NetFront Browser for Android

Today, Access released its NetFront browser for the Android platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. NetFront already supports various mobile platforms, inclusding ACCESS Linux Platform, Symbian OS, Garnet OS, BREW and Microsoft Windows Mobile.

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January 14, 2010 | Xchange Magazine
ACCESS Supercharges Mobile Browser

ACCESS Co. Ltd. has upgraded its NetFront Browser for mobile handsets and Internet-enabled devices. Version 4.0 performs JavaScript executions 20-times faster than the previous 3.5 version, the company says.

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January 14, 2010 | SlashPhone
ACCESS Announces NetFront Browser v4.0 With Super Fast JavaScript Engine

ACCESS announced NetFront Browser v4.0, the latest version of NetFront Browser for mobile handsets and Internet-enabled devices. The new version has improved the JavaScript executions time, with up to twenty times faster than ACCESS’ NetFront Browser v3.52.

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January 14, 2010 | Wireless and Mobile News
Windows Mobile New Free Apps 2Day: 20x Faster NetFront Browser 4.0

ACCESS has launched their new NetFront Browser v4.0, the latest version of NetFront Browser for mobile handsets and Internet-enabled devices.

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January 13, 2010 | Phone Scoop
Access' NetFront 4.0 Browser Boosts Java Performance

Access recently made some information available about the next version of its NetFront browser for mobile devices. NetFront 4.0's major new feature is JavaScript performance that is 20 times faster than that of NetFront 3.5.

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January 11, 2010 | ZDNet
CES 2010: Hands-on with the ELSE ACCESS Linux Platform-Based Smartphone

It was way back in early 2006 when we read that ACCESS and PalmSource announced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) that was initially intended to be the next Palm operating system. While Palm no longer has any ties to ACCESS, we heard in October that Emblaze Mobile Ltd. introduced the first ELSE mobile device running the ELSE INTUITION platform based on ALP.

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January 10, 2010 | IntoMobile
Hands-on the ELSE Linux Smartphone at CES 2010

Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Android might be the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a Linux-based mobile operating system, but it's not the only player in the Linux game. There's also the ELSE Intuition OS that powers the ELSE First smartphone from phone maker ELSE.

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January 7, 2010 | Gizmodo
Hands-On With the Else Emblaze Smartphone: Welcome to the Retrofuture

It's a left-field product: a touchscreen smartphone with totally new software, which will have to fend for itself among well-established giants. Conventional wisdom would say it's doomed, and conventional wisdom may be right. But damn it, I really like the Emblaze.

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November 25, 2009 | TechNewsWorld
Home Sweet Networked Home, Part 1

By now many of us -- even some of us who once couldn't program the clock in the VCR -- have installed a WiFi router somewhere in our homes to use a laptop on the front porch or in the back den. If you fall in this group, congratulations. Whether you know it or not, you have joined the home network revolution.

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November 25, 2009 | Linux Insider
Emblaze Shows Off Something Else

In a world seemingly filled to capacity with smartphone platforms, Emblaze Mobile has come up with something else. The Linux-based Else platform still has a long road to travel before it's seen on a mass-produced device, but there could still could be room for it in the smartphone world. One of its main features is a new way of interacting with the UI, which Emblaze calls "sPlaying."

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November 24, 2009 | Engadget
Emblaze's First Else Unveiled in London, Promises to be a Game-Changer

Folks, today might be the day when you start to notice how ancient our smartphones have become, even if they only came out in the last few months. Blame Else (formerly Emblaze Mobile) for its confusingly-named First Else, a phone "built from scratch" over the last two years and now powered by Access Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0 – a mobile OS thought to have quietly died out since our last sighting in February.

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November 24, 2009 | Telegraph.co.uk
Meet Else, the iPhone Killer

I admit to being more than a little bemused when companies trademark an everyday word as the moniker of their flagship product. Is it inspired genius or sheer bone-edle laziness that gives us a mobile phone called Else? I can hear the muffled sobs of SEO consultants as I type.

Nevertheless, having attended the official unveiling this morning, I can confirm: this phone is definitely something else. (There, I said it.)

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November 24, 2009 | V3.co.uk
Emblaze Aims to Revolutionise Mobile with First Else

Emblaze Mobile is bringing a new device to market that it claims will go beyond smartphones, and revolutionise the mobile experience.

Officially unveiled at an event in London today and set to be available in the first quarter of 2010, the First Else handset is powered by Else Intuition, a new operating system jointly developed by Access Software and Emblaze that builds on the Access Linux Platform.

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November 24, 2009 | Stuff.tv
Linux-Based First Else Phone Unveiled

There's a new mobile phone manufacturer on the market, and today we got a first look at the First Else from Israeli manufacturer Emblaze Mobile, a Linux-based smartphone promising a "unique user experience".

First previewed in Japan in October, the First Else boasts to be a handset with features which will run completely autonomously of each other.

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November 24, 2009 | SLASHPHONE
Else Intuition Linux Platform Officially Launched in London with First Else

Demoed in Japan a month ago, the new linux platform Else Intuition is officially launched to day in London. Its website http://www.else-mobile.com is also opend for business to give you an idea of what it could offer with its First Else full touch screen phone. According to electricpig, First Else will only be available in 2010 with no specific schedule.

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November 24, 2009 | SFGate
First Else Phone Raises the Interface Bar for Smart Phones

After a couple of years with the iPhone, we're almost attuned to its interface language, which has set the bar for modern touch screen smart phones.

But a new offering from Else, (formerly Emblaze) which will debut next year in the second quarter, is offering an intriguing glimpse at a radically different and potentially much more friendly form of user interface. The First Else phone, (yeah not sure about that name) is a 3.5 inch touch-screen phone built with the latest Access Linux Platform operating system.

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July 25, 2009 | Computer Talk with Dave Mason Radio Show
Palm OS, PDA's, and Smartphones

ACCESS Systems Americas Director of Open Source Technologies, David "Lefty" Schlesinger, discusses Palm OS and what's next for PDAs and smartphones.

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April 1-3, 2009 | Las Vegas, NV, USA
ACCESS and AccuWeather at CTIA 2009 Video Interview

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February 24, 2009 | Telco 2.0
LiMo - The Tortoise picks up Momentum

Handset Operating Systems are crucial to the Telco 2.0 world - they are at the front line for the presentation of Operator services. Today, the proliferation of handset operating systems is making application development unnecessarily complex.

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February 22, 2009 | Pocketbrain (Germany)
ACCESS Linux Platform 3.0 Unveiled

Im Rahmen des Mobile World Congress zeigte der japanische Software-Entwickler Access die Version 3.0 seiner Access Linux Platform (ALP), einem Betriebssystem für Smartphones.

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February 20, 2009 | Ars Technica
ACCESS Linux Platform 3.0 Unveiled

ACCESS has unveiled the next major version of its Linux-based mobile software platform. The ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0 brings a significant user interface overhaul with support for rich visual effects. It also boosts interoperability by delivering LiMo compliance.

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February 20, 2009 | Random Dumber Generator (Blog)
Access Linux For Palm Reaches Version 3

ACCESS has been showing off its newest version of ALP - the LiMo compatible mobile OS which maintains full compatibility with Palm software written to run on Palm OS 5/Garnet.

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February 20, 2009 | TreoCentral
At MWC, ACCESS Battles to Stay Relevant

ACCESS CO., the global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and "beyond-PC" markets (and the provider of the OS that is powering the Palm Centro and other formerly known as Palm OS-devices), has been working to make itself relevant in a world full of alternate mobile platforms (i.e. webOS, Windows Mobile, Google Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, etc.).

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February 19, 2009 | Mobile Shop
Mobile World Congress 09 - Linux is coming soon to a phone near you?

Well, ok, the headline’s a bit inaccurate, because Android is effectively a Linux operating system, and technically, so is OS-X on the iPhone. However, another open source player’s set to enter the market in the form of the Access Linux Platform (ALP for short).

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February 18, 2009 | Forbes
Open-Source Systems battle for Market

The big news from the GSMA Mobile World Congress this year: New phones using the Android, LiMo and Symbian open-source operating systems are rolling out in 2009.

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February 17, 2009 | LinuxDevices.com
LiMo-Ready Linux Stack Goes 3D

ACCESS is demonstrating its ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new LiMo-compatible "advanced UI" mobile ALP stack leverages Open GL-ES 2.0 to offer 3D special effects, and introduces a standardized API that splits logic from presentation layers, says ACCESS.

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February 16, 2009 | Linux Magazin (Germany)
Access Linux Platform 3.0 veröffentlicht

Das japanische Unternehmen Access hat seine Linux-basierte Mobil-Software Access Linux Platform (ALP) in der Version 3.0 veröfentlicht.

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February 16, 2009 | mocoNews
MWCWire: Xperia Panels; App Store On Card; Android E-Mail; One-Click Ad Buying; Sandisk

ACCESS has announced that the number of NetFront products which have been deployed hit 732 million on 1,710 devices (not just mobiles) at the end of January.

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February 16, 2009 | LinuxDevices.com
LiMo Adds Nine Handsets, Six Members

The LiMo Foundation announced nine new LiMo (Linux Mobile) compliant handsets from NEC and Panasonic aimed at NTT DoCoMo's wireless network.

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February 10, 2009 | LinuxDevices.com
"Mini" Smartphone Design Runs Linux

Access China and NEC Electronics are developing a "price sensitive" smartphone reference design incorporating the "new" Mini version of the Access Linux Platform (ALP) mobile stack. The touch- and 3G-enabled design will use NEC's ARM9-based MP201 system-on-chip (SoC), and a future design may use NEC's new ARM11-based Emma Mobile 1.

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January 21, 2009 | TMCnet.com
ACCESS Discusses Mobile Communications, ITEXPO with TMC

ACCESS, a company providing technology, software products and platforms for Web browsing, mobile phones, wireless handhelds, and other networked devices, helps its customers improve time to market, gain flexibility and offers customizability.

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January 3, 2009 | Art Notebook
Spruce Up You Art Notebook

The NetFront browser is in beta at this point, but it's a pretty nice little application.

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December 13, 2008 | TamsPPC
ACCESS Releases NetFront Widgets

Access, the developer of the famous mobile browser NetFront has published a new product: a free widget machine for Windows Mobile (devices with and without touchscreen) and Symbian Series 60.

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September 30, 2008 | Wall Street Journal Asia
Breaking Usability Barriers is Key to Seamless Services
CEATEC Japan 2008
Peggy Anne Salz

Internet-savvy consumers are forcing electronic technology companies to put people back into the equation.

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September 11, 2008 | blog.smartphonejunkie.com
Netfront for Pocket PC - Review

Netfront was a very good browser served as an alternative to Pocket Internet Explorer back in the days until Opera came out with much more features.

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September 4, 2008 | ars technica
A Hands-on Overview of the Access Linux Platform

The ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) attracted lots of attention at the most recent LinuxWorld, where it impressed third-party software developers and intrigued mobile Linux enthusiasts.

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August 11, 2008 | Widgets Lab
Access Linux Platform Launches, Got Full NetFront Browser Widgets Support Too

Access, the company known for the Netfront Mobile Browser and the Netfront Browser Widget engine for mobiles launched and showed the Access Linux Platform.

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August 6, 2008 | WAP Review
Access Linux Platform

Access held a "Developer Day" at LinuxWorld yesterday to demonstrate Access Linux Platform (ALP) and it's associated toolset.

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July 23, 2008 | Hadrys' Blog
NetFront 3.5

I’ve discovered the best ever browser - NetFront 3.5.

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July 1, 2008 | Just Another Mobile Monday
NetFront Surprises

If any of you have tried out the Netfront Browser from Access, you’ll know that they are at the fore front of mobile browser technology.

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July 1, 2008 | Mobility Site
Is That a Widget on Your Screen?

You’re probably very familiar with the plethora of widget or gadget technologies on the web or your desktop by now – Vista Sidebar, Windows Sideshow, Google, Yahoo and Microsofts web and desktop offerings as well as a collection of Web 2.0 offerings that it’s pointless to try and enumerate because it would already be out of date.

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June 3, 2008 | PDA Street
ACCESS Advances Garnet Virtual Machine for Nokia Tablets

ACCESS introduced a beta version of its Garnet VM (virtual machine) Palm OS emulator for Nokia's series of Internet Tablets last fall. This week it rolled out beta 2 of the software.

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May 13, 2008 | LinuxDevices.com
Lightweight Browser Ported to Linux Friendly DSP

Japanese phone stack vendor Access has ported its lightweight NetFront Browser (pictured at left) to support Analog Devices' (ADI) Blackfin digital signal processor (DSP). The combined, Linux-compatible technologies are aimed at Internet-enabled devices such as the IP set-top boxes (STBs).

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April 5, 2008 | davemason.com
All about the Palm OS and what's next for PDAs and smartphones

ComputerTalk with Dave Mason
Show Guest - David "Lefty" Schlesinger - Spokesperson - ACCESS

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February 20, 2008 | PC World
NetFront Widgets

Get weather, video, and more on your cell-phone's screen through desktop widgets a la Vista or Mac OS X. Access, the company behind the NetFront mobile browser, gave IDG News Service an exclusive first look at the system.

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February 14, 2008 | Solutions At Hand
Interesting Times Ahead

There's an old Chinese proverb (or curse, depending on your point of view); may you live in interesting times. Well, there's interesting times ahead in the mobile sector, based on the press releases coming out of Barcelona this past week. It's made for interesting reading while I've been getting over the flu.

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February 13, 2008 | Brighthand
Orange Releasing ALP-Powered Smartphone this Summer

The news many have been eagerly waiting for has finally appeared: a major telecom has committed to releasing a smartphone running the Linux-based replacement for the Palm OS that has been created by Access, Co. Ltd.

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February 8, 2008 | mobilitysite.com
NetFront 3.5 First Impressions

JK on the Run today reported that the new concept version of NetFront 3.5 is out now instead of on Monday. I downloaded it and will give you my first impressions.

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February 8, 2008 | WindowsForDevices
NetFront Browser Joins the Widgets Gang

Access has announced a new version of its NetFront web browser for Windows Mobile devices. NetFront version 3.5 adds widgets, better XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) compatibility, faster performance, and the capability to scroll up and down pages under the guidance of a device's camera.

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February 7, 2008 | InfoWorld
ACCESS Shows Browser Widgets for Cell Phones

Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.

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January 24, 2008 | Forbes.com
The Evolving Mobile Web

Everyone's buzzing about the mobile Web—again.

The debut of Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone last year reignited interest in the sector, pushing mobile-service providers, software companies and handset makers to go full speed ahead on developing new products and services. Here's a peek at some of the latest trends and developments.

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January 1, 2008 | WirelessWeek
Are Browsers Dead?

A few weeks ago, an Internet research company released a study saying Apple’s iPhone was used more than any other cell phone to access the Internet with a browser. That statistic, picked up by such publications as The Wall Street Journal, surprised quite a few people in the industry but it did serve to emphasize that phones are being used a lot more for things other than making voice calls.

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