Internet cafes are located world-wide, and many people use them when traveling to access webmail and instant messengers to keep in touch with family and friends. Some of them, especially LAN Gaming Centers, are also used for multiplayer gaming, having several computer stations connected on a LAN. In this case, the computers are specially assembled for gameplay, supporting popular multiplayer games. This is reducing the need of video arcades and arcade games, and many are being closed down or are being merged into Internet cafs.Internet cafes are a natural evolution of the traditional cafe. Cafes started as places for information exchange, and have always been used as places to read the paper, send postcards home, play traditional or electronic games, chat to friends, find out local information.Internet cafes are a natural evolution of the traditional cafe.aside fr new friends, i wanna mit cafe operators as well.
Access to the Internet typically requires, at a minimum, a computer with the right software, a modem, a telephone line, and a subscription to an Internet service provider (ISP). In the Philippines, the computer and modem would cost some P25,000 (US$500); phone and ISP subscription combined would require around P1, 000 (US$20) or more per month. This is definitely beyond the reach of most poor families, though perhaps within reach of the middle class, if they were willing to drop other daily expenses. At these costs, the Internet would definitely remain an enclave of the rich. To make the Internet more accessible to the ordinary citizen, the idea of telecentres, more popularly known as Internet cafes.The Internet cafe would take care of the hardware and connectivity requirements and a user needed only to pay a per-minute charge for access to the Internet. here it cost 20.00 per hour. 18 PCs opened from 8am-12am. Although still expensive for the typical poor who might be earning under P100 to around P500 each day (US$2 to $5), Internet cafes made the Internet somewhat more accessible to the middle class and some of the poor who might need it badly for a specific purpose. thats the mission of DEN-R internet.I would estimate that on any one day, 1/2 to 2/3 of the computers in use would actually be devoted to games (very violent and gory ones, at that). The remaining active ones would be split roughly evenly between online chat, word processing/printing, and browsing/E-mail, with a few somewhat more engaged in chatting.DEN-R internet caf will initially have 20 Pseats. All the computers in DEN-R are equipped with branded AMD Athlon64 3.0, 1GB memory & a 80 GB harddisk drive to add more power & speed to the machine. it also features 19" & 17" colored monitors for all the workstations and headsets for privacy. With all these advanced technology that DEN-R has to offer, a surfer would really feel the rush of speed and power of seismic proportions.
While broadband access and a computer system in each home is the norm in other countries, most Filipinos in our country still rely on the ubiquitous neighborhood Internet café as the main source for their Internet access and gaming needs. In this light, it is essential to promote and improve Internet café services to better serve the average Filipino’s demand for quality online content at broadband speed and world-class customer supprt
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It offers a host of Internet related services such as surfing, e-mail, IRC,network gaming & communicationservices such as printing, scanning and desktop publishing.In the future, There will be value added services such as computer Sales/pawning, Internet training for beginners & advanced levels from system trouble shooting to web page hosting.By end of Year 2006, the target is to put up 80 additional PCs upstairs and more branches that would be located in strategic and highly accessible sites in major cities throughout GMA. DEN-R's goal is to become the preferred cyber caf for the students and of the masses.
Each floor of this caf will initially have 20 PCs. All the computers are equipped with branded AMD Athlon64 and Sempron64 3.0 dual core Processors 1GB memory, 256MB graphics card and an 80 GB hard disk drive to add more power and speed to the machine. The caf also features 19" colored monitors for all the workstations and headsets for privacy. With all these advanced technology that DEN-R has to offer, a surfer would really feel the rush of speed and power of seismic proportions.
