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ACCESS in the News
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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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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
Listen to the audio... Part 1 | Part 2
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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 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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December 18, 2007 | itwire.com
NTT DoCoMo ramps up the Linux mobile platform battle
ACCESS Co Ltd, a Japanese global provider of software technologies to mobile markets, has signed an MoU with NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Esteemo under which the companies will study the use of the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) as the basis for developing a shared Linux platform for mobile phones and an operator pack for NTT DoCoMo.
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December 17, 2007 | ovum.com
Will ACCESS become DoCoMo's Linux platform?
ACCESS has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding between NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic and ESTEEMO, the purpose of which is to study the feasibility of using the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) as the basis of a shared software platform for Linux-based mobile phones to be used by each of the companies.
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November 6, 2007 | brighthand.com
ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) First Thoughts
Like its rival being developed by Palm, Inc., ALP (Access Linux Platform) is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones capable of running Palm OS applications.
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August 14, 2007 | Open IT Strategies
Mobile LinuxWorld: Accessing the Other Palm Story
If Palm Inc. (née Palm Computing) is trying to find life after the PDA, its former alter ego (PalmSource) is trying to run to the front of the parade of adapting Linux to mobile platforms.
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August 13, 2007 | Bernie's Rambling
ALP Screenshots
ACCESS which acquired rights to Palm not so long ago (which then sold the ‘Palm’ brand name back to… er… Palm) has a new website dedicated to the ACCESS Linux Project and published soem screenshots. The replacement (one out of many?) for Palm OS 5 looks to be shaping up nicely indeed. Wish I can get hold of an engineering sample phone.
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August 10, 2007
Screenshots of the ACCESS Linux Platform appear at LinuxWorld
LinuxWorld is taking place this week and I just saw an article on PalmInfocenter that linked to the source article on MobileLinuxInfo that shows screenshots from the upcoming ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP). This was the Linux OS that Palm was going to put on their devices, but now it is uncertain since Palm is developing their own Linux OS. The ALP may be coming to other mobile devices and the MobileLinuxInfo article shows an iPhone-like layout at the top of the screen. You can check out even more details at the new ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) site.
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August 9, 2007
New ACCESS Linux Platform Screenshots
ACCESS have launched a new website for the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) with new developer documentation and details about the platform. The company has also announced a number of new partners and initiatives around ALP at the LinuxWorld going on now in San Francisco. MobieLinuxInfo has put together over 10 screenshots of the linux powered platform in action and goes over some of the new ALP news announced this week.
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August 8, 2007
LinuxWorld : quand Linux s'efface devant ses applications
La 8e édition de LinuxWorld se tient actuellement à San Francisco. Le système d'exploitation gratuit, devenu standard dans les centres de données, s'attaque à la téléphonie mobile.
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August 13, 2007
New ALP Screenshots (ACCESS Linux Platform)
To coincide with the LinuxWorld conference taking place in San Francisco, ACCESS launched a new website and also some screenshots of its ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) which helps to give us an indication as to what the future of Palm’s own next generation operating system might look like (a Treo running this new OS is anticipated at the beginning of 2008).
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June 15, 2007
Mobile Phones: Our Computer Companions Play an Ever Increasing Role in Our Lives
ACCESS is the company that developed NetFront™ Browser, now used worldwide in more than 300 million mobile handsets. More recently, ACCESS has developed a Linux-based, next-generation platform as well as technology for next-generation networks (NGNs). Tetsushi Hayashi, editor-in-chief of Nikkei Communications, asked Dr. Kamada, co-founder, executive vice president and CTO of the ACCESS Group, for his opinions on trends in mobile technology and NGN initiatives.
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April 19, 2007
GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative launched
The GNOME Foundation is scheduled to announce the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE) today at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. The initiative is aimed at bolstering GNOME usage as an embedded and mobile development platform. Founding members include open source organizations and commercial interests such as ACCESS, Canonical, Intel, Debian, Nokia, Red Hat, Fluendo, the Linux Foundation, and Maemo.
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March 29, 2007
ACCESS Linux Platform For Smartphones & More
ACCESS has big plans for ALP (ACCESS Linux Platform), its open source operating system (OS) for mobile devices. It is positioning ALP as a platform solution for the full range of mobile handsets, from the lowliest feature phone to the highest-end smartphone.
Not only that, ACCESS executives Albert Chu and Larry Berkin revealed to us today at the CTIA Wireless show the company's plans for ALP as an embedded OS in a wide variety of devices, including GPS units, copiers, printers, cameras, home appliances, VoIP phones, video game consoles, TVs, musical instruments, cars, set-top boxes and more. You name it and ACCESS will likely promote ALP be used in it one way or the other
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January 3, 2007
FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS
In the world of PCs, there's one major OS--Windows and a couple of smaller operating systems including the Apple Macintosh OS X and Linux. In the server world, there's about an equal mix between Windows and various versions of Linux.
But in mobile today there are a plethora of embedded and open operating systems including Symbian, Palm (legacy), Windows Mobile, Linux (MontaVista and PalmSource), BREW and RIM as well as embedded systems from Enea and Wind River. Mobile Linux will become the dominant OS on mobile phones within five years. Here's why.
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November 2, 2006
NetFront™ browser for Pocket PC wins Best Software Award 2006 from Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine
For the third year in a row NetFront browser for Pocket PC has won a Best Software Award from Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine in the browsers and Web utilities category. NetFront surpassed Opera browser for mobile and Bitstream’s ThunderHawk™ browser to establish itself as the best browser for the Windows Mobile®/Pocket PC platform.
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Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine Web site
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October 30, 2006
Access to Open-Source Mobile App Framework
ACCESS will contribute a mobile application platform to the open source community before year's end, it says. Its "Application Framework" for GTK+ aims to offer device developers specialized mechanisms for package installation, task-oriented application interoperation, and security policy definition and management.
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October 17, 2006
ACCESS, PalmSource ease toward integration
ACCESS Co. Ltd. has recently launched a new logo, brand identity, and website said to "integrate, update, and expand" content previously available at its main website and that of wholly owned subsidiary PalmSource.
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