Oberhausen, Germany, August 28, 2012 − ACCESS CO., LTD, today announces that its IBC demo of NetFront™ Browser NX 2.0 (IBC stand: 14.103) shows how HTML5 provides the broadcast space with an open UI platform that enables the launch of next generation UIs, EPGs, TV Services, and Games all at ‘Internet speed’.
Oberhausen, Germany, August 23, 2012 − ACCESS CO., LTD, today announces that its NetFront™ Browser NX 2.0 becomes one of the earliest HbbTV-1.5-compliant WebKit-based browsers, enabling broadcasters and operators to launch HbbTV services that utilize the new features of the HbbTV standard, including support for building EPGs using DVB-SI information, and the ability to enable the adaptive streaming standard MPEG-DASH.
Oberhausen, Germany, August 14, 2012 − ACCESS CO., LTD, today announces that it will be returning to IBC this September to showcase its award-winning portfolio of multiscreen solutions. Visitors to the ACCESS IBC stand will see that it has a water-based theme, showing how ACCESS is making it easier than ever for consumers to dive in to the immersive new services launched by operators.
Oberhausen, Germany, August 8th, 2012 − ACCESS CO., LTD today announced that it is working with Vestel, a leading OEM and ODM in the consumer electronics and digital products markets, to provide consumers with rich media playback and enhanced content control features on their TVs and other home devices.
Oberhausen, Germany, July 10, 2012 - ACCESS CO., LTD today announces that Skyviia Corporation has chosen the award-winning ACCESS NetFront Living Connect™ to provide media sharing capabilities for its Android System on a chip (SoC) being built specifically for TVs and set-top boxes.
Tokyo, Japan, July 4, 2012 - ACCESS CO., LTD. a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, today announced that it has contributed technology from its multi-platform eBook viewer NetFront™ BookReader EPUB Edition to the Readium open source initiative sponsored by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
Tokyo, Japan, July 2, 2012 - ACCESS CO., LTD. a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, today announced that its EPUB 3-compatible eBook viewer, NetFront™ BookReader v1.0 EPUB Edition, has been adopted as a standard viewer engine for EPUB 3-compatible services by Kobo Inc. a global leader in eReading, and a subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc, one of Japan’s largest Internet service companies.
Oberhausen, Germany and Bristol, England June 12, 2012 - ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, and Ocean Blue, a leading innovator of digital TV middleware software, today announced the commercial availability and public demonstration at ANGA (Ocean Blue Stand – Hall 10.2 / Stand H48) of the companies’ joint HbbTV solution, which is ready for commercial deployment.