Campaign: Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards Client: Yahoo! Mail PR team Cow PR Timescale: April 2004-February 2005 Budget: Less than pounds 50,000 In late 2003, free web-based email provider Yahoo! Mail asked Cow PR to develop a campaign to attract young, urban customers, particularly students. The challenges were the competitive email market, and the difficulty …[ read more ]
GOODNESS ME , is that the time already? It is the 10th anniversary of the internet cafe. Ten years have passed since Eva Pascoe, an enterprising young Polish woman, capitalised on a popular new hobby by opening Cyberia, the world’s first computer-and-coffee shop, in Whitfield Street, central London. There are now more than 20,000 internet …[ read more ]
The 10th anniversary of a globally transforming technological innovation should have been widely noted and celebrated. Yet 10 years on from when Eva Pascoe, a Polish PhD student studying in London opened Cafe Cyberia, the world’s first cybercafe, there’s been little to mark the occasion. Yahoo! which understandably has benefited from the phenomenon launched its …[ read more ]
LONDON: John Major was prime minister of Britain. The Internet, to most people, was like something out of “The Jetsons.” “Latte” was Italian for “milk,” not American for “coffee.”Ten years ago on Wednesday, Cafe Cyberia, billed as the world’s first Internet cafe, opened in the West End of London. By most accounts, it drew a …[ read more ]
LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – A San Francisco laundromat may be the one of the world’s most unusual places to surf the Internet but a sleek club on Moscow’s Red Square is definitely the sleekest, according to a Yahoo! survey of the globe’s best cybercafes. The winners of the first Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards …[ read more ]
Ten years ago today, the world`s first internet cafe opened its doors in London’s West End. To mark the occasion, Yahoo! Mail has unveiled the best places around the globe to surf the net. The winners of the inaugural Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards include a unique laundromat / internet cafe in San Francisco, a …[ read more ]
AS the internet cafe celebrates its 10th anniversary, research shows how invaluable it has become for travellers. Far from getting away from it all, today’s wired generation stay in touch. The study from search engine Yahoo! shows that 69 per cent of young Britons regularly use e-mail while travelling. And forget escaping to far away …[ read more ]
Cyberia, the first Internet cafe to launch in the UK, is to introduce totally free Internet access it announces Tuesday. The new service will start on 20 July and is being sponsored by free ISP Zoom, Easynet and interactive music company eJay. Shopping portal Zoom is the brainchild of Eva Pascoe, one of the founders …[ read more ]
Cyberia says demands remains strong Once upon the time, the cyber cafe was the in place for surfing the web and sending emails to friends. Very few people had access to the net and yet we were all fascinated by the idea of getting online. It is just like there is a requirement for public …[ read more ]
Zoom, the fashion portal and internet fulfilment company, will today launch a service for retailers wishing to go online, covering everything from website design through to ordering, delivery and customer service. It has signed up Actif Group, an Aim-traded company that owns the rights to Elle merchandise in Europe, as its first big customer. Under …[ read more ]
