- Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:58:27 +0000: Clothes Horse Wants To Solve The Biggest Problem With Online Shopping: Finding Clothes That Fit - TechCrunch
Clothes Horse, a fashion technology company based out of New York, is publicly launching its platform today in an attempt to address one of the biggest challenges facing online shoppers: buying clothes that fit. Through the use of a customizable widget that merchants add to their own websites, Clothes Horse can determine within just 30 seconds how the retailers' items will fit any customer. The goal is not only to decrease shopping cart abandonment, but also the rate of returns due to ill-fitting clothes. - Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:33:49 +0000: The Winners Of This Year’s $100,000 TechFellow Awards Are… - TechCrunch
Tonight, Silicon Valley's heroes gave competition a rest and joined together to celebrate the spirit of innovation. An all-star committee of tech moguls carefully considered your nominations of visionaries in the fields Engineering Leadership, Product Design and Marketing, General Management, and Disruptive Innovation. They chose 5 leaders per category and awarded them each a $100,000 grant to invest in a startup of their choice.
Here are the winner's of this year's TechFellow Awards: - Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:45:54 +0000: San Francisco Launches The 2012 Innovation Portfolio, From Open Taxi Data To Beta Tests In City Hall - TechCrunch
San Francisco may not have intended to be become the startup mecca that it is today, but now the city government is working hard to make itself as friendly as possible to tech entrepreneurs. Makes sense, considering that there are 1,539 tech companies and 30,000 tech jobs in the city now -- a number that's been growing fast as older industries like high finance continue to suffer through the recession.
What that means is this. Mayor Ed Lee, who came to power last year with heavy support from the local tech scene, is announcing a new initiative today at the TechFellows awards ceremony, that has some intriguing ideas for making the city itself more relevant to the booming industry within it. - Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:42:49 +0000: OnLive Adds “Cloud-Accelerated Browsing” To Its Streaming-Desktop Stable - TechCrunch
You're probably familiar with OnLive, the company that made its mark by streaming brand new console and PC games to whatever devices could support a high-bandwidth video stream. Many doubted its technology to begin with (including yours truly - Is OnLive OnCrack?) but they've more or less delivered on their promises, and have also been expanding the services they offer. Most recently they introduced OnLive Desktop, which streamed a Windows 7 desktop to your iPad.
That was mainly focused on productivity - Office apps and such. Now they've added web browsing to the table. Yes, they will stream live video of a web browser running in a datacenter to your device, which almost certainly already has a web browser. - Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:40:14 +0000: Browser Shootout Shows Minor Variations In Performance – It’s Still A Matter Of Taste - TechCrunch
The browser wars are in a tense state of suspension right now. The once-obvious advantages of one and disadvantages of another can't be counted on as much as they could a year ago, and fast-changing standards and interaction methods have produced a sort of uneasy détente while everyone awaits the browser equivalent of the Manhattan Project to catapult them into the atomic age.
Tom's Hardware just did a nice, thorough examination of the available browsers on Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and the findings are really mixed. It used to be that Firefox always won, and we could all make fun of IE. Then Chrome came and won all the speed benchmarks. And then there was Opera. Now it's a mess. How do you pick the browser that's best for you? Easy: you flip a coin.
