Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 11, 2008 – ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today announced the immediate availability of the ACCESS Linux Platform™ Development Suite (SDK and Tools) via a newly-created developer portal designed to provide support and services for third party Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

Successfully field-tested by select ISVs since early 2007, the ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite has also been productively used by developers creating mobile applications for the Orange Application Package for ACCESS Linux Platform that is part of the Orange Signature strategy intended to deliver a consistent customer experience across a variety of devices and applications.

The ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite is now immediately available to all registered members of the ACCESS Developer Network (ADN). The ACCESS Linux Platform Development Suite is a complete, integrated development environment (IDE) that leverages open source tools such as Eclipse™ and Glade, integrated and extended for the needs of mobile applications. The ALP Development Suite includes all the necessary components, tools, samples and documentation to develop, run, test and debug native applications for mobile devices based on the ACCESS Linux Platform. It includes:

• A complete Eclipse-based set of development tools
• The Glade 3 Interface Editor for GTK Apps
• The ACCESS Linux Platform Simulator which runs on the Linux™ desktop and provides seamless application debugging
• A Compilation Toolchain: gcc, linker and gdb
• The VirtualPhone Tool which simulates a carrier network for telephony applications
• Scratchbox, which enables command-line development and cross-compilation for ARM device targets
• Headers and libraries
• How-To Documentation and an Integrated API Reference