He was not worried about keeping in touch with business partners, relatives, and friends back home because he was already a great fan of Skype. "Skype not only makes work easier, it also makes it possible for me to talk to my friends and family when I want to," he told Asian Business Online.
The Internet message service Skype has made the world smaller since it first appeared in 2003. At a time when people travel the world more and more, Skype brings people together. Users can make free calls to each other anywhere in the world, and the high sound and video quality gives them the feeling that they are in a room with the people they are talking to. This is what is so attractive about Skype, and today over 300 million users make two billion minutes of calls a day.
And Skype is not only for humans. At Cameron Park Zoo in taxas, in the United States, orangutans are given tasks. If they complete them, they get a reward: they are allowed to use Skype to talk to orangutans in other zoos!
Tung, who is himself an IT expert, says: "I think Skype is here to stay. We'll use it in more and more devices, such as videophones. I can imagine a time when you have a tablet in your kitchen, an Xbox connected in your living room, and you can be on a video call and it will follow you around the house. I think that time is not far away.