iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

I’m both excited and to be able to announce that Sakai will bro Brock’s next Learning Management System. Terry Boak, Brock University’s Vice-President Academic finally officially announced the move to an open-source Sakai-based Learning Management System (LMS) at Wednesday May 14th, University Senate meeting. Thus I feel I can now start blogging about it. This… Continue Reading Sakai to be Brock University’s next LMS

Most Firefox users know about the super-fast in-page search (ctrl+F/Command+F) – it’s one of those features that have been there since Firefox 1 and prevent users from switching back to other web browsers. Did you know that you can instantly search for any text on a web page by hitting the forward slash and typing… Continue Reading Firefox in-page search tip

It’s finally here, the Apple iPhone will be in Canada later this year! Here is the Rogers’s press release confirming the agreement: http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=1604292519&view=5804-0&Start=0 The only tantalizing statement is: We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can’t tell you any more about… Continue Reading iPhone in Canada!

Campus Technology posted an interview they did with Matthew Small today. It’s very interesting in that it gives insight into his mindset with respect to the patent and he refers frequently to any perceived problem with the patent to be with software patent law itself, not Bb’s patent. It’s a good point, software and business… Continue Reading Matthew Small and Clare Respond to Bb patent developments

How’d I miss this? www.campustechnology.com/articles/60271/. Maybe it’s just as well that I didn’t post this around April 1st. Credit to Giulia for spotting it. There were 10 total issues raised in the reexamination request covering all 44 of the claims in the Blackboard patent. The process isn’t over, and the patent is technically still valid,… Continue Reading BlackBoard patents invalidated!