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I realized that I haven't been on here since 2010 with a post about how times have changed within Retail where it used to be a big NO having cameras in your store http://tinyurl.com/Madman2010 Since then, I have blogged elsewhere, written papers, produced music and other good stuff... So 2011, and a return to where it all started with my ...

While I applaud any government that has a digital outlook and digital strategy – I also have to look at why it is being produced, for who’s benefit and what the salient points are from it! I am very sceptical around Governments that have “Ministers for XXXXXX” that in fact have no real understanding of the issues, risks and dependencies. They will ...

Digital Nutshell: Issue 4 – MidemNet 2009 Special ~ Digital Music 2.0 Next stop after Las Vegas (as well as a brief stop over in Gibraltar – full analysis of the Online Gaming industry coming soon…) was onto Cannes and the MidemNet digital Music conference – and what could be classed as the Music industrys defining year such as the web was 2 ...

Well here I am on my final day (of 2) at what looks like will be the final MacWorld conference. I say the final, sure the organizers would not agree with me on that one, but if you ask the exhibitors, as I have been doing, publicly all for MacWorld 2010, in private they're not coming back. No Apple at MacWorld doesn't mean too much to these ...

Well it was very close… and there are a few towns and small cities that will never be the same as the vicious cycle continues on the high street and shopping malls up and down the country. As lots and units become vacant, especially larger ones such left by Woolworths, MFI, Adams, Zavvi etc… and no one to fill them -  the landlords will try ...

Firstly some exciting news from January 2009 The Diary of A Madman Blog will also be available as Podcast of a Madman  with the usual ranting's and good stuff, as well as a whole host of other media that I can only talk about, but the podcast you can also listen, watch and view some episodes - all be announced and then you can subscribe and ...

Friday 28th November saw the first of the Virgin Atlantic VJAM workshops to brainstorm ways to improve the travel experience for customers.  Conchango took the Microsoft Surface unit along and I played guardian and host of this device for most of the day.  The attendees included travel professionals, experts in social media and ...

In a previous post, Object Recognition leads the way for Microsoft Surface, I touched on how Microsoft Surface recognizes devices placed on top of it.  Microsoft Surface reads a small square 8-bit tag that is attached to an object so that users can interact with it.  The tag is a combination of dots that works like a barcode. When ...

During the Surface workout Isobel demonstrated the magic of Microsoft Surface.  The one feature of Microsoft Surface that Bel didn’t touch on was object recognition.  Yet object recognition is one of the features of Microsoft Surface that really excites me. The five cameras inside the unit can recognise objects placed on the ...

I have kept relatively quiet over the last 18months on this - due to the sensitive nature of what we, at Conchango, have been developing for one of the UK's biggest retailer! So to help demystify, clear up and also show some of the innovation that Conchango and their retail partner is involved in, thought that now (seeing as they have just ...