Business Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000
Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGIY) (Switzerland: LOGN, LOGZ) and easyEverything announced that all 800 terminals at the world's largest Internet cafe, which opens in New York today, will be equipped with Logitech(R) QuickCam(R) Express cameras.
Visitors to the easyEverything store in New York--the 20th in the easyEverything chain--will now be able to send video mails and digital photographs or even broadcast live via the Internet. Users will still be able to take advantage of the store's high-speed Internet access and broad range of other mainstream software applications.
"Many people are already coming to easyEverything stores to send and receive email," explains Stelios Haji-Iannou, chairman of easyGroup. "Providing Logitech's QuickCam cameras at our terminals allows them to liven up their emails with photographs and video clips, making it a valuable additional service. We anticipate adding Logitech cameras to our 19 European stores, as well as to additional sites that we plan to open during 2001."
About Logitech:
Founded in 1981, Logitech designs, manufactures and markets human interface devices and supporting software that link people to the Internet and enable them to work, play, learn and communicate more effectively in the digital world. Logitech's interface products include Internet video cameras; input and pointing devices such as optical and tactile feedback mice, corded and cordless mice, keyboards and optical trackballs; multimedia speakers; and interactive entertainment products such as joysticks, gamepads and racing systems.
With operational headquarters through its U.S. subsidiary in Fremont, California, and regional headquarters through local subsidiaries in Romanel, Switzerland, and Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., Logitech International is a Swiss public company traded in Switzerland under the symbols LOGN and LOGZ, and in the United States on the NASDAQ National Market System (LOGIY). The company has manufacturing facilities in Asia and offices in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information about Logitech and its products, visit the company's web site at http://www.logitech.com/.
About easyEverything:
easyEverything is the chain of the world's largest Internet cafes, which already receive well over one million visitors each month. It is the brainchild of Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the easyGroup chairman, who also founded easyJet.com and easyRentacar.com. easyEverything has applied "supermarket economics" to Internet access, resulting in the cheapest and best Internet access money can buy out-of-home. Each cafe has hundreds of computer terminals and all are open 24 hours a day. The company's business plan is to be a truly global brand by the end of 2001.
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