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Provision of software development services is a growing industry that is now worth an estimated $100 billion annually. It's also a flourishing industry that has changed everything about the way enterprises do business. It allows companies to cut down costs and provides a way to significantly reduce time to market and increase flexibility.

However, with rates varying anywhere between $15/h and $150/h companies are often confused as to how much they should be paying.

With this in mind, we thought that it was about time we explained the factors that can affect the cost of software development. Armed with this information, companies should find themselves in a better position to negotiate what they feel is a fair rate for the work involved.

Speech has always been the favored mode of communication. A person speaks an average of 15,000 words each day. And in contrast with other forms of communication like writing, speech is simple and easy to use. People feel most comfortable expressing themselves with speech. It removes the need for proper spelling, spellcheck, and any associated issues.

Consequently, more and more people worldwide own smart speakers. NPR and Edison research indicate that 53 million Americans currently own at least one. Furthermore, nearly 25% of Americans are using some form of voice-activated device regularly. Children and other members of households do it as well.

Personalization is a standard for most marketing strategies—and your app should not be different. But what does it actually mean? Personalization is when you address your customers directly, showing them that you understand their pains and needs. Thus, you show them a situation where they can recognize themselves and suggest solutions based on your product or service.

Seeing how artificial intelligence is driving mobile app personalization, it's no wonder that business owners actively cooperate with AI companies to avoid lagging behind today—and expand their business in the future.

To back it up with a good example, see how the integration of voice assistants can enhance modern software solutions. Alexander Solonskyi, Data Science Engineer at MobiDev, gives his thoughts on what lies at the heart of voice technology.

The proliferation of AR-based indoor navigation applications in different consumer sectors is estimated to experience tremendous growth in the coming years as technologies continue to evolve. As users increasingly become more digital savvy and ready to apply new technologies in their everyday life.

• Introducing Augmented Reality Indoor Navigation
• Available technologies for indoor user positioning
• How to develop an AR indoor navigation app
• The Future of AR indoor navigation
• Final thoughts on AR indoor navigation adoption

The clients addressed us with an idea of a mobile application that would help musicians record song ideas and collaborate on them remotely. Their first step would be testing the market and finding additional investors to develop the product further. Our goal was to build a viable beta for these purposes.

This internal project shows the process of entering the market fast, using the technical capabilities of Flutter to get the required functionality and speed up the development process. 

Technology is widely adopted by retail companies with the quite obvious purposes of overtaking less advanced competitors, gaining new customers, and eventually increasing revenues. 

Just like technology, retail remains a shifting landscape. In particular, the emphasis on digital transformation continues to reshape shopping, online experiences and even customer expectations of physical stores. The retailers who thrive in this environment are the ones who embrace technological change. Let's take a closer look at 7 tech trends that will affect the retail sphere over the next few years.

Augmented reality is capable of delivering some of the most exciting advances in marketing since the very introduction of the internet. Business applications for this tech aren't just limited to the design or presentation space; indeed, some of the best uses for augmented reality can increase sales, maximize customer engagement, and improve customer satisfaction. By connecting users to the products they buy in a real, visual way, you can bridge the gap between your intended audience and the products or services you sell. 

Smart Mirror takes an item of daily life and turns it into a powerful assistant, a highly functional work of IoT development. It utilizes a special one-way mirror that shows information on a display hidden under its surface, and it can be connected with any platform or service.

Mobile Augmented Reality continuously reveals its potential for practical purposes. Our today's demo is the second one to elaborate on the concept of indoor navigation on campus, this time with the help of Apple's ARKit. First and foremost, this may be of interest to modern companies with large premises and hundreds of employees, who need a convenient tool to find the shortcut to the room where an urgent meeting is about to begin.

How do they find it? Well, they just scan a special marker located in the required building, select their destination, and get the route on their smartphone screen — simple as that. Check the video to see how it works!

With a sphere as disparate as the Internet of Things—and with products ranging from simple beacons to complex industrial equipment and smart home systems—the advent of platforms to streamline development was only a question of time. 

The most notable of these platforms is Amazon Web Services IoT. Its services empower developers to speed up the development process and raise the bar of stability and reliability. Some of our own cases show that months of work on custom server modules can be reduced to a couple of weeks or even several days.

Moreover, the flexibility of AWS IoT allows our developers to establish seamless integration of IoT products within large ecosystems, which may comprise a diversity of custom elements such as web services, analytic systems based on Data Science or, say, Alexa Skills.

Delivery of information in an engaging way is one of the most widespread use cases for mobile Augmented Reality. And if we speak about user manuals, we need to be practical and add convenience. What can be easier and faster than just pointing your smartphone camera at an electronic device and get immediate information on what it consists of and how it works?

Our today's demo presents a virtual user instruction for a coffee machine. It is one of the simpler devices, which can nevertheless be unclear at times—or just feature a different language. But with an AR user manual at hand, all the user has to do is scan the machine and see what each button means: different kinds of coffee, hot water, automatic cleaning, and stand-by mode. Interested how it works? Check the video to find out!

Augmented Reality repeatedly proves its viability for practical use across a number of areas—from effective customer support in shared AR spaces to indoor navigation to inventive means of raising brand awareness.

Our team, as always, is at the forefront, continuously mastering and applying the latest AR technologies. Here's our take on the practical side of Augmented Reality: all of our video demos gathered for you in a single post. These ideas can be further developed by our team in your own software projects.