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.