Excel isn't going away, but it is no longer the default front-end UI, nor the only way to communicate data.

As mindfulness becomes a hot topic in the innovation space, more and more software that combines cutting-edge technology with modern mindfulness is available, melding plugging in with unplugging. So for your yogic pleasure, here are four simple tools I enjoy

Programmatic media buying (PMB) has been touted as the future of media planning and buying, especially in the online digital segment.Yet, they haven't. Even after years of double-digit annual growth forecasts, PMB accounts for a meager 10 percent of total digital media buying.

Downloading substandard educational apps is at best a waste of time and money. More disturbingly, bad educational apps can promote poor learning habits or compromise privacy.

A smarter set of technologies is what we need for the mobile. During periods of high speed and high quality bandwidth, mobile apps should anticipate what we're going to read or watch and cache it for later. Don't make us have to remember to pre-download or prepare for being offline.

Facebook seems to be putting a full-court press on mobile lately. And for good reason. Numerous social apps not called Facebook are gaining traction on smartphones.

How do you keep your users happy and interested in your app with all the distractions on their phone's home screen? How do you rise above all the noise? Meet Appoxee.

The benefits of mobilization in the enterprise are well documented - increased revenue, employee retention and happier customers are just a few. However, when mobile strategies fail it costs businesses precious time and a lot of money.

Audience measurement is well understood and routinely performed by firms such as Nielsen (TV), Arbitron (radio) and Comscore (web). It would appear to be a no-brainer for these companies to jump on apps. But, clearly, that has not been the case. What gives?

What makes medical apps truly revolutionary is that they use internet-enabled smartphones and tablets to connect us directly to our family physicians and medical professionals.

If the eye is the window to the soul, then the human eyeball might be the gateway to the next generation of biometric password. Tony Rush of EyeVerify say In three years, "people will no longer need to enter passwords to use their smartphones."

It makes too much sense. The social media platform that allows you to scan quick bursts of text - in 140 characters or less - now has a bite-sized ...

If car manufacturers really want to have something that resembles an app store, they are going to have to put their heads together and play it smart. As with everything else, there is a right way and wrong way of doing it.

What happens when you stop using Instagram? You start having nightmares. You dream in filters, which keep changing, driving you insane. There's thi...

In the backdrop of a U.S. economy struggling to pull itself out of mounting debt and changing consumer spending patterns, the pace of innovation is accelerating. Here are four predictions that will shape the mobile economy in 2013 onward

"Disruption" is so analog. Transformation is the word that will capture the new era of the mobile enterprise. Many legacy Fortune 500 tech giants -- Dell, Intel, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, et al. -- are rushing to change as the static, analog PC Age they thrived in dies faster than anyone predicted.