We went to megamall yesterday and visited this Internet Cafe Congress 2007. I tought we can immediately just checkout those booth and do some malling but ALAS it took me 3 hours just to fall in line and get those gaming posters. I did check out also the booth of a certain company who does continues INK because I’ve been canvassing a good Continues INK kit since last month but since school will be over soon I’ll probably wait till June this year.

For those people who are not yet aware about the plight of computer shop owners are facing right now let me give a very short talk about it. A team was formed to crack down businesses( and icafe included) who uses pirated Microsoft Products and other BSA software like adobe, etc. This group gave a grace period of 30 days to allow businesses and Icafes to license their software especially Operating System and MsOffice last August and it ended yesterday. Most Icafe’s owners decided to close their shops for the past days though some of them took the risk and hoping those MIB or NBI don’t show up infront of thier shops. I did the same. Most big Internet shops here in our area were closed for the past days so our icafe were always full. Students are lining up. Feeling nervous though.

Linspire OS

Getting Licensed Operating System is part and should always be part of the Business investment but personally speaking I can only afford to get single license like for every 4 months. With the raiding situation I’ll be installing more Linspire OS (formerly Lindows). I already tested it on our two personal computers on our shop and its working okay minus the games. Basically, It will be for surfing, yahoo, msn, aol chatting, typying and music listening purpose. It’s better this way than risking the business besides my original business plan is not relying on the Icafe profits. Next task is to explore the gaming side of linspire and its possible to run some online games because I saw another company who specilized in runing windows games on linux or linspire environment.

Just this Saturday Argel is now officially part of our Mobilehive.com’s Internet Cafe Team. Once the guy will be familiar with the daily operations of the Icafe I’ll slowly focus on something else. Of course I always wanted to focus on web stuff (the business side of it). Actually, I already started it.

Here we go again. I know I haven’t that active here but it doesn’t mean I’m not active in other aspect of my daily routines. Now I’m here I have so much to talk about.

First as usual I’m very much busy in managing of our I Café. I’ve been organizing and thinking on how to make those works easier for all of us. Some might think that the daily Internet Café operation is easy but the truth is it is not. Think of a very busy location where students and other workers on the go need an attention while they are inside the shop. Think of users who are very beginners in using the computer yet they are asking for instructions that are advanced on their computer skill level. Of course we would like to give them a hand as often as they would want. Not to mention the printing, cd burning etc. Problems have been regularly being noted.

Mobilehive Internet Café is Hiring

We’re not big yet but we need people. Just this afternoon I interviewed a Guy from Kalookan City and met with him in Megamall. Well, he might be the guy for the Job. He will be visiting the Shop in Binan this Saturday. Opps.. Isn’t it weird he is from Kalookan while the shop is in Binan Laguna? The answer is he is willing to be relocated  cool

Adding More PCs

I just setup another PC yesterday. We will test it first before offering it to our customers. Will be adding another one if I can get more funds for it.