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by Joe Chow
Since the start of academic year 2008, more than 7,000 students had participated in the Student Notebook Computer Long Term Loan Scheme (LLS). The scheme entitles eligible students to loan a notebook throughout their period of study. Students can select between two models of notebooks, namely the ...
by Henry Wong
You may have noticed that, since the end of last month, you have been receiving email from your external correspondents in only a matter of seconds. This is the result of the recent system upgrade performed on the university incoming mail gateway. Spam/junk email had been the headache of email users ...
by Joe Lee
Microsoft set up the DreamSpark program in 2008 to provide free professional developer and design tools to students around the world to help them improve their learning and skills through technical design, technology, math, science, and engineering activities. The only restriction on the use of ...
by Yeung Man
During the last academic year 2009-2010, the Student Computer Literacy Programme (SCLP) (organized by the Computing Services Centre (CSC)) has arranged 36 training classes for 7 different courses. 1350 applications from students were accepted. The course evaluations on students who have attended the ...
by Kevin Chan
With the mobile workforce growing continuously, it is a major concern for IT decision makers to protect sensitive data on mobile computers. Starting from Windows Vista, BitLocker Drive Encryption helps protect sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users. BitLocker To Go extends such ...
by S K Tsui
Similar to the eduroam service, Universities Wi-Fi is a free collaborative Wi-Fi network offered by the JUCC institutions (CityU, HKU, CUHK, PolyU, HKUST, HKBU, LU and HKIEd) since year 2009 allowing staff and students of any member institution to log on and use the WLANs while they visit the other ...
by S K Tsui
As a VIP to the CityU, alumnus can now enjoy free Wireless LAN (WLAN) service anywhere inside the campus to access the Internet. Being a registered user of the CityU-Net Basic Service , alumnus can use any IEEE802.11a/b/g/n compliant wireless device, whether it is a wifi phone, PDA or notebook ...
by Joe Lee
Enterprise 2.0 is defined as “a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise.” (Please visit http://www.aiim.org/What-is-Web-2.0.aspx for details.) As technologies advance rapidly ...
by S K Tsui
Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) is the technology integrating Voice over IP (VoIP, the technology used in the IP Phone system) and WLAN technology, enabling the Computing Services Centre (CSC) to e nhance the current phone service to include wifi phones in mobile communication support. The wifi phones ...
by Yeung Man
Business Intelligence With the advance of technology, organizational data is often already collected in computer database through the use of database management system such as Access, Oracle, SQL Server … etc. Data has to be gathered, modeled and transformed before it can be used to troubleshoot ...