Huge internet companies ignore progress
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007It is hard to imagine that even in our time of high technology there are places which the progress can not reach. Besides the more coming progress theoretically can reduce the possible income, the more that progress is restrained by means of all existing ways.
As you know, the most of free e-mail services exist because of advertising earnings that is shown to the Users in the web-interface of mailbox. That’s why the Internet web giants of web industry are not in a hurry to give a free access to mailboxes through the POP3 and SMTP protocols. No doubt they wouldn’t want the effectiveness of their advertising to be reduced greatly.Such giants as Yahoo.com, MSN.com, and AOL.com have many users who are attached to other services of the companies and they are being slow to provide users with such access, just because people got used to use the web interface. (more…)