ACCESS¹ Linux Microbrowser Adds Support For Trolltech¹s Qt Application
Development Toolkit

Qt Support in ACCESS¹ NetFront 2.6 for Linux Demonstrates Strong Commitment
to Linux Platform

FREMONT, CA ­ January 9, 2002 ­ ACCESS Systems America, a global provider of
innovative embedded browser software for Internet appliances, today
announced that it now supports Trolltech¹s Qt application development
toolkit for ACCESS¹ popular NetFront® 2.6 for Linux microbrowser. Using Qt,
ACCESS¹ customers can develop Internet applications that can easily be
re-targeted to various Linux-based Internet appliances.

³Linux has become a major platform for non-PC applications, including gaming
consoles, PDAs, set-top boxes and Internet appliances,² said Marty Smuin,
vice president, sales and marketing, ACCESS Systems America. ³By
accommodating Qt support in our microbrowser we let the Linux community know
that we are serious in our efforts to support Linux-based platforms.²

³We are extremely pleased that ACCESS has ported NetFront to Qt,² said
Haavard Nord, Trolltech¹s CEO. ³It¹s an affirmation of the emerging power of
embedded Linux, and the strength of Qt/Embedded and Qt Palmtop in the
evolving world of wireless computing.²

The port of NetFront to Qt delivers two benefits to ACCESS and its
customers. ACCESS¹ Linux microbrowser now runs on all devices that support
Qt/Embedded and Qtopia, the Qt-based embedded application environment. And
ACCESS¹ customers can use Qt to develop Internet applications that run on a
large number of Linux-based Internet appliances. The Qt version of NetFront
for Linux will be released to the U.S. market first.

The Qt Application Development Toolkit
Qt is a C++ toolkit that greatly reduces the time and resources developers
need to write for multiple platforms. Qt reduces the job of porting to a
simple recompilation, thereby eliminating the problems and costs of
maintaining separate versions for different platforms. The Qt/Embedded
version can be scaled to a very efficient memory footprint for embedded
Linux applications.

NetFront 2.6 for Linux
In December of 2000, ACCESS introduced its NetFront 2.6 for Linux Software
Development Kit (SDK), the first to make an embedded browser available for
the Linux operating system platform. NetFront 2.6 for Linux is a compact and
powerful browser that is optimized for networked Internet appliances with
limited hardware memory configurations. The browser kernel is less than 270
KB of code and fits in 1.3 megabytes of ROM and 2 megabytes of RAM. It
supports the full HTML 3.2 specification and selected portions of HTML 4.0.
It supports frames, JavaScript, cookies, web printing and multilingual
capabilities.

The NetFront 2.6 for Linux SDK lets developers customize the user interface
to their desired look and feel and add plug-ins tailored for specific
applications. These modules, available from ACCESS, include Internet mail,
Japanese language input kits, SSL capabilities, JavaTM Virtual Machine,
animation plug-ins, and more.

ACCESS¹ NetFront browser operates in resource-constrained environments on a
wide variety of embedded CPUs, such as ARM cores, StrongARM cores, Hitachi's
SuperH series, IBM/Motorola's PowerPC, MIPS Cores, and Mitsubishi's M32R/D
series. In addition to Linux, NetFront also runs on various RTOS including
micro-ITRON, OS-9, pSOSystem, VxWorks, Windows CE, and others.

Written in ANSI C, NetFront 2.6 Linux SDK is available as a full source code
package. The SDK includes the NetFront 2.6 browser kernel, a sample user
interface module and PIM suite, the Internet mail module, a sample library
for peer interface layer and graphics layer (GTK/SDL), and documentation. An
AVE-SSL, SSL version 2/3 module is optional. A free evaluation version of
NetFront 2.6 for Linux is available at the company¹s web site
http://www.access-us-inc.com. (Go to detailed information for NetFront 2.6
for Linux.)

About ACCESS Systems America, Inc.
ACCESS Systems America, Inc. (ASA) is the U.S. subsidiary of ACCESS Co. Ltd.
of Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), a leading global provider of
innovative embedded browser software for Internet appliances. ACCESS¹
embedded NetFront® and Compact NetFront® browsers power over 150 different
commercial products worldwide including mobile phones, digital televisions,
set-top boxes, game consoles, PDAs, car navigation systems, web phones,
kiosk terminals and intranet terminals. ACCESS' Compact NetFront micro
browser is most widely deployed in phones for NTT DoCoMo's popular i-mode
service. To date, more than 53 million ACCESS software licenses have shipped
from more than 40 major Internet device manufacturers. ACCESS Systems
America, Inc. is based in Fremont, CA. More information is available at
www.access-us-inc.com.

About Trolltech
Trolltech is the creator of Qt, a cross-platform object-oriented C++
application toolkit that lets developers write one source-tree that can be
ported among Microsoft Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and embedded Linux
platforms with a simple recompile. Qt is the basis of many successful
commercial applications worldwide, and was used to develop the open source,
KDE desktop environment. Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with
offices in Brisbane, Australia, and Santa Clara, California. More about
Trolltech can be found on the web at www.trolltech.com.


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sale in the United States. Such securities have not been registered in the
United States under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or
sold in the United States absent such registration or an exemption there
from.

NetFront, Compact NetFront, JV-Lite, AVE, and AVE-TCP are registered
trademarks owned by ACCESS Co., Ltd. in Japan. NetFront is a registered
trademark of NetFront Communications, Inc. in the United States and is used
under a license.  i-mode is a trademark of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. All other
trademarks belong to their respective owners.