Spam, or junk mail, refers to unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE). It is an annoying problem faced by most of the email users. In order to provide better spam filtering service, CSC has upgraded the "spam scanner" software from SpamAssassin to Sophos Pure Message ...

The Mobile Computer Service (MCS) is a service provided by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to allow students to access the campus network and the Internet via the wireless LAN to facilitate their studies. All full-time and part-time students in the main campus are eligible to borrow notebook ...

Connecting to today's turbulent computing environment is not risk free. How can users survive from unknown virus infection, phishing attacks, software vulnerabilities and zero-day exploit? We have used McAfee's anti-virus software for some years and the ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) since 2002 for ...

In response to the rapid changing computing environment and increasing demand for services, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) set up the Help Desk in September 1997 with dedicated human, hardware and software resources to help users resolve their day-to-day usage problems. (see Network Computing ...

The University Senate, at its meeting on May 24, 2005, endorsed the Information Services Strategic Plan 2005-2010 prepared by the Committee on Information Services and Technology. The focus of the plan is to use information technology to improve communications and access to information to support ...

CityU has been offering the Wireless LAN (WLAN) service since 1997. The population of registered WLAN clients has increased more than ten folds from less than 200 at the beginning to more than 3000 clients now. WLAN technology is changing rapidly and new standards are emerging in the market ...

Whether you are a mobile phone user or an owner of a handheld device or smart phone, you may encounter technical and industry-specific terms like GSM, CDMA, WAP, MMS, SMS, GPRS (2.5G), 3G, Wi-Fi and bluetooth. To have a better understanding of the wireless world we're in, let us take a look at these ...

The entire CityU community is reminded once again of the University's commitment to the protection of intellectual property and copyrighted material. The Computing Services Centre (CSC), as the administrator of the campus network, will take all necessary actions (e.g., blocking the network ...

The Challenges In recent years, the substantial increase in student number has led to the significant shortage of computer teaching studio not only in its number but also with the right seating capacity. Unless immediate measures are to be taken, the situation will undoubtedly be worsened for the ...

Dr Jerry Yu, CIO, introduced CityU's strategic e-Learning project at an open forum on 5 May, with a straightforward account of the project's objective and its significance to the University community.