Access Company, Ltd. and Metrological Media Innovations announced that the companies are working together to provide cloud-based TV app-store solutions. The integration of ACCESS' NetFront(TM) Browser NX with Metrological's TV App-Store platform provides a software and hardware agnostic joint solution that enables TV operators and CE device manufacturers to offer consumers a broad range of innovative interactive applications. This joint solution provides an easily managed cloud-based environment populated with apps that run on the robust ACCESS browser on a connected TV or other device.

It will be marketed by both ACCESS and Metrological and is already live with a major cable operator. ACCESS' NetFront(TM) solutions have already been shipped in over 1 billion devices globally. ACCESS' NetFront Browser NX is based on the WebKit open source browser engine, and is an advanced TV-centric HTML5 browser which enables Metrological's App-Store to swiftly and seamlessly integrate linear TV with online content.