Tony Bates Quotes

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

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

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

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.