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The Sun Java System Messaging Server (JSMS) has been used as the staff email server for many years. It can no longer satisfy today’s communication needs for advanced features such as calendar and appointment scheduling, cooperate phone book, task and reminders, anywhere anytime access via web browsers and mobile devices.

The new CityVoD (ref: http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cityvod/) was launched in November last year. Its interface not only changed to allow users to use mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 to navigate and watch videos but the underlying technology of the service also enhanced to enable this support. The CityVoD is the University’s video service which allows users to select and watch videos and listen to audio recordings on the web at their own time. Apart from selecting videos from the CityVoD collection and establish direct link to videos from websites, videos can also be embedded in the CAP (CityU Announcement Portal) for making video announcement.

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ SaaS provides the most integrated functionality built directly into the offering, with the least customised extensibility, and a relatively high level of integrated security offered by cloud providers. From customers' perspective, implementing security in the case of SaaS means that service levels, governance, compliance, and liability expectations of the cloud services and respective providers are contractually stipulated, managed, and enforced.

Acquisition of new printers i. Quota-controlled free printing service Although the existing printers for supporting the quota-controlled free printing service have only been used for about 3 years, they break down quite frequently due to abnormal wear-and-tear resulting from year after year increasing heavy usages far exceeding their recommended loads. All of the existing 10 printers in the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and Library will be phased out and replaced by industrial grade Konica Minolta Bizhub Pro 950 printers. These new printers will be installed in late-March and hopefully put into use in early-April to meet another peak printing demand towards the end of Semester

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The innovation of cloud computing has changed the way IT operations are deployed in various organisations around the world, including universities. Its benefits in cost saving, operational scalability and flexibility surpass the conventional platform and quickly become the center of attention for the next generation computing style.

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ PaaS is intended to enable developers to build their own applications on top of the platform supported by cloud service providers. As a result, it tends to be more extensible than SaaS, at the expense of customer-ready features. In the case of PaaS, it is the responsibility of the universities' system administrators to effectively manage the same level of security measures provided by the cloud providers for protecting the underlying infrastructure components to ensure basic service availability and integrity levels.

E-learning best practice is the focus of a three-day e-Learning Fair on campus co-organised by the Office of Education Development and Gateway Education and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

City University of Hong Kong (CityU), in support of its Discovery-enriched Curriculum and the growing importance of mobile technology, has redesigned its entire public website to be mobile-friendly and implemented a mobile-learning scheme that allows interactive learning anytime, anywhere.

The following is a brief update of the recent changes in the Academic Building 2 (AC2): New room numbers for AC2 will be adopted in Semester B 2011/12. These new room numbers were used when the ARRO’s class scheduling data was loaded into the CSC Teaching Studio Booking System on 6/7 Dec. The existing booking data had also been converted accordingly. The Campus Development and Facilities Office (CDFO) posted these new AC2 room numbers outside the rooms during the transition period.

What is the Microsoft Student Option (MSO) scheme?To encourage use of IT and use of genuine software, this scheme entitles CityU’s students to use one university subscribed copy of the latest version of Microsoft Office (“the software”) during the licensed period (1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012). Eligible students include all regular full-time and part-time students.The application procedure