U.K. cyber cafe heads to New York

Published: 12 April 2000 y., Wednesday
The easyEverything chain offers low-cost Internet access to travellers and others without their own computers through its five London cyber cafes, easily recognizable by their giant orange facades. Located in tourist areas such as Oxford Street and Victoria Station, the cafes have a total of 2,300 computer terminals. The company has recently added outlets in Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Barcelona. Now the company is planning to take on the American market. The easyEverything the company wants to open in Times Square will have "more than 600 terminals," James Rothnie, the company's public relations director, said. "Disney and Nasdaq are interested in the same building," he added. Rothnie wouldn't reveal how much the company was prepared to spend on the New York location, but did acknowledge that it would be more than the company currently spends, "about 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) in purchasing and refurbishing each location," he said. EasyEverything bases its financial model on bulk purchasing, so although the price fluctuates according to supply and demand, Internet access can usually be had for 1 pound ($1.60) per hour or even less.
Šaltinis: IDG
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.

Facebook Comments

New comment


Captcha

Associated articles

Cost and Environmental Concerns Push U.S. Business Leaders to Become More Energy Efficient

60 Percent Believe IT Can Transform How Their Companies Manage Energy Consumption more »

Aladdin Knowledge Systems Shareholders Approve Merger with Vector Capital Affiliate

Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. announced that its shareholders approved the definitive merger agreement, providing for the acquisition of the Company by a Vector Capital affiliate. more »

Banks want more mobile-banking, mobile-deposit tech

Fiserv Inc. says a recent market study shows that banks and credit unions view mobile-deposit capture as a key consumer benefit, and they're looking to it as an extension of remote deposit capture. more »

Cyber-community for schools

Teachers take educational website in new direction. more »

Microsoft Reveals New Windows® Phones

Today at Mobile World Congress 2009, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer along with key mobile partners, HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled new Windows® phones featuring new user-friendly software and services. more »

Wincor Nixdorf opens Singapore Global Distribution Center

New facility to benefit customer operations in Asia Pacific. more »

10,000 “Eureka Moments,” and Counting

Microsoft has been awarded its 10,000th U.S. patent for a unique way of interacting with surface computers. more »

Study shows U.K. adoption of contactless, mobile payments is consumer driven

Convenience, rather than security, will be the driving force behind the U.K. adoption of new payment methods, according to an independent survey of 1,000 British consumers. more »

Wincor Nixdorf receives awards in environmental friendliness and customer satisfaction categories

In the first handelsjournal competition for the best products for retail businesses, Wincor Nixdorf’s BEETLE /NetX nd BEETLE /iSCAN systems were awarded gold and silver in the categories environmental friendliness and customer satisfaction. more »

Safer surfing for children

Seventeen leading websites have agreed to put in place safeguards to protect young people from unwittingly risking their privacy and safety. more »