TRENDS
AND INSIGHTS

Technology has been increasingly adopted by all major industry sectors over the last several years—and the energy industry is no exception. Tech innovation is no longer associated only with replacement of paperwork with automated electronic systems. The next step is reinvention of the ways that energy and utilities companies do business, engage their customers an... Read the article >

GDPR—EU regulation that protects the personal data and privacy of EU residents on a completely new level—is to be enforced May 25. Fines for non-compliance with this regulation are rather large. If you do business in Europe, you will definitely need to know the following. This new regulation standardizes data protection law across all EU member states. It will ha... Read the article >

A few days have passed after our participation in HIMSS 2018, a conference for tech innovation in the healthcare industry that took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. Representatives of major US and Canadian healthcare businesses, hospitals, and medical universities were attending the event—and we had the chance to talk to them and form a picture of modern he... Read the article >

Today’s market of IoT solutions is rather fragmented in a sense. Being a launchpad for standalone business-driven innovations, it still struggles towards interoperability and unification. Bluetooth Low Energy is one of such unifying standards that have already settled down in the IoT world. As opposed to the classic Bluetooth, it offers considerably reduced... Read the article >

For every $1 billion invested in the United States, $122 million was wasted due to lacking project performance, as a 2016 survey by PMI showed. That’s a huge percentage that covers the realm of software projects. This is the money that should rather be invested in additional features or extra promotion that would take the software product to the next level.... Read the article >

Hello again! It’s time to continue the making of Pluto the Robot. Since the events described in Part I and Part II, our Pluto has become able to receive commands, move forward, backward, to the left and to the right. As of now, Pluto is not a long distance runner because of the USB cord that connects it to the computer. Well, the time has come to set him fr... Read the article >

The hour has come for the conclusion of my series of articles about building Pluto, a robot prototype controlled remotely via Wi-Fi connection and a browser. In the previous entries we constructed the robot and prepared the server side. Today’s conclusion will cover attachment of a camera and setup of real-time video streaming to the said browser. As a mat... Read the article >

Hello everyone! I’m back to proceed with building Pluto! Today I’m going to tell you how to teach it to receive the simplest commands and execute them. In the previous post we connected the Arduino, L298N motor driver, 2 motors, and a couple of batteries together. We warmed up by starting up the motors and regulating their velocity. Now the time has ... Read the article >

Meet Angular Native – a new platform that allows to create native software using cross-platform technologies to cover iOS and Android. In other words, you get the best of both worlds – native performance and code sharing capabilities. How is it possible? How does it work? Can it become the perfect budget-saving solution to base your software product on? Read furt... Read the article >

Remember Pluto, our new two-wheeled robot prototype? That’s the one who has a camera eye and streams video to a browser. Well, today’s the time to start a series of articles that can show you through the process of its creation! I am Sergey Koba, PHP/Ruby Team Leader and Pluto’s creator, and I will be your guide. Let’s go back to the star... Read the article >

Despite the increasing processing power of mobile devices, most cross-platform apps cannot fully satisfy the constantly growing demands as for the visual richness combined with good performance on both iOS and Android. How can we resolve the issue? The most obvious answer lies in understanding the specifics of the platform, the wrapper on which the application co... Read the article >

Update (as of 2025): While RadJS, developed by MobiDev, was a breakthrough in cross-platform development at the time, it was originally released in 2013 and is no longer actively maintained or relevant for modern use cases. Today’s development landscape is dominated by more advanced technologies like React Native, Flutter, and Capacitor, which offer greater perfo... Read the article >