Social Collaboration Platform For Students Kolab Opens Public Beta To First 15K Users
If you whipped Google Docs, Facebook Messenger, and OneNote around in a blender, the resulting concoction would look something like Kolab, a new Canadian startup that is vying to become the ultimate social collaboration platform for students. Kolab offers a solution for any student that has become sick and tired of switching between Microsoft Word, Facebook, OneNote, and email. It offers real-time collaborative document editing, Facebook chat integration, video chat, and audio recording for lectures amongst its laundry list of features. Of course, there are plenty of other players in the land of education startups. Wiggio and Edmodo are two startups that we’ve covered here on TechCrunch that boast similar features, and are tailored specifically for student use. So what differentiates Kolab from the rest of the pack? Kolab granted me access to their beta last week, and I’ve been diligently putting it through the paces. There are a lot of interesting ideas there, but it’s safe to say ...
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Microsoft: jQuery 2.0 Will Add Full Support For Windows Store Apps
The next version of jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, will drop support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, but doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t very bullish about getting developers to use jQuery 2.0 and HTML5 to develop “a new wave of jQuery-based Windows Store applications.” As Microsoft announced today, Microsoft Open Technologies, the company’s wholly owned open source-focused subsidiary, and the JavaScript experts at appendTo, have been working with the jQuery community to ensure that the next version of the framework offers full support for Windows Store applications. Developers could obviously already build Windows Store/Metro apps with jQuery, but thanks to this cooperation, the process for developing jQuery 2.0-based Windows Store applications should now be smoother, safer and more streamlined. As appendTo’s director of support Jonathan Sampson wrote in today’s announcement, jQuery always met the language criteria for Windows Store applications, but “Windows 8 ...
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Twitter Launches Its First Official App For Windows 8 And RT
Twitter just launched its first app for Windows 8 and Windows RT. It’s been a long time coming, but the new app does seem to do the platform justice, with a number of Windows 8-centric features, including support the Windows 8 Share and Search charms, snap view (so you can park the app on the side of the screen), live tiles and notifications. The Discover tab uses Windows 8?s horizontal layout to highlight individual tweets and photos. Photos were clearly something the designers focused on with this release. Tapping a photo brings up a full-screen view that put the image front and center. You can also view a photo gallery from your favorite users right in the app. Thanks to the Share charm, you can now also share links to these photos, as well as links from other apps and Internet Explorer 10 to Twitter. Just like every other Windows 8 app, the Twitter app also uses the Windows 8 Search charm. As Microsoft notes, the app uses ” the same design principles seen on Twitter.comand other ...
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Microsoft enables Flash by default in Internet Explorer
Microsoft is changing the default behaviour of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 to allow all Flash content. On Windows RT, both the desktop and "Metro" versions of the browser will show most Flash content
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After Previously Blocking It, Microsoft Now Enables Flash By Default On IE10 For Windows 8 And RT
Today, Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8?s Metro/Modern UI mode and on Windows RT blocks Flash by default and only allows sites on Microsoft’s curated Compatibility View (CV) lists to play Flash content. Tomorrow, that’s changing: all Flash content will run by default and the CV list will now be used to block sites from playing Flash content. Windows 8 users previously had to switch to the desktop mode to view Flash-enabled site. Now, however, Microsoft says only about 4% of the “thousands of domains tested” are still incompatible, so the team has decided that switching the policy around was the right thing to do. That’s a pretty unexpected change, but Microsoft argues that after thorough ” testing over the past several months, the vast majority of sites with Flash content are now compatible with the Windows experience for touch, performance, and battery life.” More sites should “just work” in IE10, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer group manager Rob Mauceri writes, and ” ...
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