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November 28, 2000: 7:39 a.m. ET
'World's biggest Internet cafe' set to open in midtown Manhattan
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina will be on hand Tuesday for the opening of what's being called the world's biggest Internet café.
The easyEverything Internet café, set to open in Times Square this week, will feature high-speed Internet lines and 800 state-of-the-art personal computers with sleek flat screens, the café's operator, easyEverything, said.
For the first week, rates will be $1 for five hours of high-speed Internet access. After the first week, rates will vary depending on the crowds – Web surfers will pay more at peak hours, from $1 for 15 minutes when the café is full, to $1 for five-plus hours off peak, the company said.
The café will also provide other peripheral services, such as CD burning and color or black-and-white printing, and will rent access to Microsoft Office 2000 at $1.50 for a 12-hour session.
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For the first week, rates will be $1 for five hours of high-speed Internet access. After the first week, rates will vary depending on the crowds – Web surfers will pay more at peak hours, from $1 for 15 minutes when the café is full, to $1 for five-plus hours off peak.
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"We want to provide fast and cheap Internet access 24 hours a day for people from all walks of life: students to commuters, business travelers to tourists, to small business owners," easyEverything founder and Chairman Stelios Haji-Ioannou said in a statement announcing Tuesday's planned opening.
Hewlett-Packard (HWP: Research, Estimates) has been working with easyEverything on developing e-services and its Internet access. easyEverything is the first U.S. venture of London-based easyGroup, which already owns easyJet and easyRentaCar.
There are already about 15 easyEverything Internet cafes in Europe in Berlin, London, Madrid, Amsterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh and other cities. A second New York City easyEverything Internet café is scheduled for next year in Union Square, near the Greenwich Village neighborhood. 
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