Tom Townsend

    Stay tech savvy with the Eligo Technology news roundup, featuring the latest news and updates from the Tech industry each week. This week ending 21/04/2017 Mastercard creates a new biometric card, a majority of Open Source has secruity flaws, get up to speed with neural networks and deep learning, Sitecore research finds marketers focus too heavy on mobile rather than consumer experience and businesses are more likely to ask google than the government for cybersecurity help.        Biometric Banking: Mastercard creates credit card with fingerprint recognition to replace pins Tend to forget your pin at the till? Not keen on contactless? With...

  Stay tech savvy with the Eligo Technology news roundup, featuring the latest news and updates from the Tech industry each week. This week ending 03/03/2017 the new UK Digital Strategy is announced, AWS typo knocks websites offline, the UK economy is adapting well to automation and Dyson challenges tech giants with a huge investment in Britain.             Google, BT and more pledge skills training for millions as part of UK digital strategy The department for Culture, Media and Sport has finally unveiled its Digital Strategy that includes Google, Barclays, Lloyds Banking and BT pledging to offer digital skills training to millions in...

  Stay tech savvy with the Eligo Technology news roundup, featuring the latest news and updates from the Tech industry each week. This week ending 20/01/2017 employee monitoring is driven by data, Deliveroo is set to create 300 tech jobs in London, Microsoft adds support for another Linux distribution on Azure and Codracy breaks down important software metrics for developers.            The next generation of employee monitoring is data driven Would you let your boss track your every move? A major UK bank and some parts of the NHS are reportedly fitting their employees with wearable tech that monitors their every move. From how...

    Stay tech savvy with the Eligo Technology news round up, featuring the latest news and updates from the Tech industry each week. This week ending 11/11/2016 Tesco bank suffers from a Cyber-attack, there's an AI machine that lip-reads better than humans and a VR Remembrance Day tribute.           Remembrance Day tribute: VR returns WW2 vet to the town he helped liberate Enlisting the help of VR production company Mutiny Media, Market Network Twine created a VR experience that transported a WW2 veteran to the town he helped free from Nazi occupation over 70 years ago. The Remembrance Day tribute enabled today’s residents of the...

Have you ever thought about taking your Android skills to the Android contract jobs market or are you looking to grow within it? Going contract can offer benefits from increased pay and flexible hours to being your own boss and having a greater sense of freedom. If you’re a full time Android Developer who is new to the contract market, however, you may find it somewhat an alien concept. As such we’ve put together a brief guide to the Android contract jobs market to provide you with insight into where you can find android contract roles, the earning potential of android contract job opportunities, and what employers are looking for in a candidate.   Where are the roles?...

    Eligo Technology news round up, featuring the latest news and updates from the Tech industry - week ending 07/10/2016             UK Government gives £220m boost for cutting-edge tech The chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond has announced that there will be a £220m boost to help support UK’s technology sector. £100m of the funding will be extended to enhance cutting edge medical technologies and some £120m will help to stimulate collaboration between universities and business. Read more here (Tech City News) 03/10/2016   Panasonic announces a new flexible battery Panasonic unveiled...

The life of a developer contractor comes with superior earning potential than that of a permanent employee, and other perks such as flexible hours, and being your own boss. These benefits often compensate the potential negatives, namely; the lack of a regular stable income, and job security.   Whilst some contractors develop excellent relationships with specific clients, the uncertainty about where the next contract developer opportunity is coming from often still remains. One way to counter this is to use a contract developer recruiter, which not only can ensure that you are able to pick up contract opportunities steadily, but also brings a range of benefits with it. I’ve...

Have you ever wondered what the key stages that take place during a hiring process are, what companies are looking for in a candidate, and ultimately how to get hired? Last week, Eligo were fortunate to host the internal recruiter from one of Europe’s leading technology groups to answer each of these questions and provide further insight into what goes on inside a major company during the hiring process. Emphasising key points made in our previous blogs on effective hiring processes to reduce staff turnover and increase the quality of hire as well as how to attract the best candidates , the move into 21st century recruitment was clear throughout. This broadly covers 3 areas of...