While there's certainly no shortage of apps you can use to record meetings and interviews, Pio Smart Recorder (free for iOS) differs because it lets you tap to bookmark important sections of recordings.
A few years ago, only a few GPS navigation apps for smartphones (and GPS-capable tablets) let you download and save maps, instead of downloading as you needed them. Today, dozen of these apps exist.
Is there a more loathed form of communication today than email? Nope, not in my opinion. Are there way too many email apps that promise to make it easier to manage those messages? Yep.
Consumers tend to stick with what works for them. The more time and money they invest in a product or service, the less likely they are to venture out and try competing products.
We're moving deeper into the modern "walled garden" of digital life. Generally speaking, you choose the garden you like best -- be it Apple, Google or Microsoft -- and the more time and money you invest, the more painful it is to leave that ecosystem.
Widespread adoption of mobile payments among enterprises and consumers alike will take time. But when you've got Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung and (most likely) Microsoft jumping into the market, you've got traction.
Atmospheir is a new, free iOS app designed to corral all of your contacts in one place and then keep them updated. It works well, but it's certainly not the first, or only, software to perform the feat.
You're a senior executive wondering what might come next in your career. Positions at your level are rarely advertised or posted. So you contact a search firm or two. You tell them you're, "not actively looking" but might be interested in a new position, should the right one present itself. You email them your resume. They promise to keep you in mind. While many times there may be no results from the exchange for months, if ever.
You're physically at your desk, but mentally, you're still watching the fireworks or thinking about that backyard BBQ. The more enjoyable and longer your time off, especially in the summer, the harder it is to shift back into work mode. Meanwhile, those projects you're getting paid to do? They aren't going to check themselves off your to-do list.
Successful social media marketers regularly share interesting, fresh and relevant content with their followers. Time consuming? You betcha. These three apps (one brand new) make it simpler -- but not necessarily painless -- to share online articles from mainstream publishers.
Every few months, I look back at the apps I recently reviewed and ask myself a few questions: Which of the apps have I used at least semi-regularly since my review? Which ones would I recommend to a friend? And which ones stand a good chance of being around for a while? (R.I.P., Circa News, one of my previous "best of" winners).
By all accounts, mobile app usage has significant traction. The challenge enterprise marketers face, though, is how to leverage that traction in meaningful ways.
Amazon this week officially removed the velvet rope from Echo, its "Siri-with-a-speaker" smart home device. You can now buy Echo for $180, no invitation needed, though you have to wait until at least July 14 for it to ship.
If you've dismissed Apple Maps as extraordinarily inept, it might be time to give the once-beleaguered navigation app another go.
Apple is widely praised for its design sense, and rightly so. However, its Health app has always struck me as oddly un-Apple, thanks to its unsophisticated, off-putting, dated interface.