China : Internet cafe easy target to teen pranks

Shanghai daily reports bored teen Internet cafe customers antics

Teen terrorist by -- CITY police announced the arrest of a 19-year-old man suspected of making fake terrorist threats. Police said the suspect surnamed Li sent an online notice from an Internet cafe in Fengxian District on July 3, claiming he was planning to blow up the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

Li allegedly confessed to police that he came up with the idea out of boredom and just wanted to frighten other Netizens.

Despite Shanghai city 's internet cafes highly regulated, the city police do face such pranks.

Nigeria promotes cyber cafe in IT summit

Nigerian netizens Plagued by online scams like 419 , have brought an adverse image.
The Nigerian regulators & some private companies have joined hands to address the various issues. The initiative is called " City People’s Telecoms/IT Summit" It offers a common platform to all the stake holders to address the issues form their perspective. The regulators
addressed briefly on the challenges faced by them in carrying out its oversight functions.

Nigeria's Vanguard News-site reports :
The summit with the theme; “Taking Advantage of Opportunities in the Telecoms/IT Sector” is being hosted by the City People Media Group in furtherance of its support for the fast growing sector. According to the organizer, the summit is intended to benefit ordinary Nigerians as well as the Telecoms/IT operators to tap from the enormous advantages in the sector.
Topics for the summit include
“Creative Marketing of Telecoms Deliverables”,
Taking Advantage of banks’ facilities ”,
“ How to make legitimate money from the Internet”,
“ Careers in Telecoms/IT and human resources management”
“How to set up profitable Cybercafes and Business Centres”,
“Web payment made easy” and
“ maintaining a responsive Customer Care Centre”.

great initiative to bring ICT benefits to common man.

Nanopublishing mogul launched his venture from a cyber cafe

tech Start-ups from the proverbial garage , so obviously expect media publsihers from a cyber Cafe !

Tobi Elkin, in mediapost narrates about how the online journalism group ContentNextMedia Inc's founder Mr. Rafat Ali began his venture. Mr Ali publishes reports on various business niches like Digital Media ( PaidContent.org) , Indian Digital media ( contentsutra.org ) on a blog. These niche publication have created a market for themselves and now attracting lot of interest form venture capitalist.

Elkin mentions :

“Ali's been boot-strapping his business via advertising revenue and sponsor dollars for a while now. Not bad for a guy who started the site from a cold-water flat in London after being exiled from New York due to visa issues. All the more impressive since the flat didn't have Internet access; Ali produced his blog at cybercafes and coffee shops; he uploaded the content from computer disks.”


We talk of proliferation of Internet access at home & at office but few understand any reason to have shared public access to Internet.

India: Survey claims half of internet users access it from cyber cafes

A survey on Internet usage pattern conducted by Times News Network comes out with interesting analysis.

Almost half, 46%, of internet users access it from cyber cafes !

The net penetration of just around 10% of urban Indian population hooked onto the Net, and almost half of all computer using Indians (around 50 million ) on the Net, internet has already reached at an inflexion point as far as becoming a viable mass-media.

Shared Internet Access Platform can offer a multiplier effect in reaching higher internet penetration.

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