What’s the difference between a fad and a trend? A fad is ephemeral and burns out shortly after it ignites. For example, every holiday season we witness how some new and novel toy takes the market by storm--remember the Tamagotchi? But soon enough, few people care about these toys anymore, and in ...

Augmented Reality (AR) is the new frontier in manufacturing. Although it can often be conceived as more appropriate for the world of entertainment or gaming, AR has just as many uses in manufacturing sectors that improve accuracy and efficiency. At its simplest, AR – or “mixed reality – is an ...

Loads of great things in software development have been done in the IT world over the course of decades. Along with all the achieved benefits, several self-sufficient kingdoms emerged on the IT arena. Here you can find separate territories with their proponents: Scrum masters, Lean loyalists, Automa...

It seems like there is always a new "must-know" programming language that everyone suggests will be the wave of the future. But with the constant onslaught of these new languages, many of these ultra-popular programming languages are no longer as useful as they once were or were predicted to be. ...

Developing your own mobile app is exciting. Unfortunately, your excitement doesn’t always equal success. Even though mobile apps cost around $250,000 to design, build, and launch, only a tiny bit of mobile apps wi...

Oleg Panichev, a Researcher and a member of Ciklum’s R&D Engineering Team, took 4-th place in the DrivenData competition on predicting the number of penguins in the Antarctic. The goal of the competition was to ...