Jim Barksdale Quotes

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media - all industries are becoming technology industries. And it's not information technology: it's business technology.

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.