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The Computing Services Centre (CSC) has been offering comprehensive IT support and services to faculty, staff and students especially in the lecture theatre (LT) and classroom environment. In particular, the CSC has worked with the Facilities Management Office (FMO) to provide a complete set of computer and audio-visual equipment for teaching purposes, enabling both faculty staff and students to make use of the best-of-breed technologies for course delivery.

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 recently.

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 student learning, research and administrative operations. Four key areas are identified:1. A Unified e-Learning Platform

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.

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 technologies in turn.

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 connection or computer account, disciplinary action, etc.) against any user who is found performing illegal copying of digital materials on the campus network - whether music, video, text, or pictures.

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 years to come. Without the allocation of additional space, extra teaching studios can only come from the conversion of open-access terminal rooms (which are solely used by students for their course work and self-study), and the increase of seating capacity can merely be achieved by replacing the existing larger computer desks with relatively smaller ones.

Today, the University unveils its revamped homepage, boasting enhanced functionality and better-structured content, thanks to the concerted efforts of the Enterprise Solutions Unit, Facilities Management Office, Communications Office and other offices/units under the leadership of Dr Jerry Yu, Chief Information Officer.The six static photographs displayed at the top of the front page have been replaced by photos related to a story on the University's latest developments. These photos will be updated regularly to display fresh news of interest to our readers.

The community of City University is expanding not just in the increasing number of student, alumni and staff, but also diverse relationships with the University such as prospective students/staff, visiting scholars, exchange students, retired staff, etc. Moreover it is common to have multiple roles and changing roles. Identity Management is definitely the direction for enabling the not only huge number but also heterogeneous users to gain secure access to the suitable electronic resources in a timely manner.

The University offers its students a range of facilities and services to provide a better learning environment and to support whole person development.The provisions of such facilities and services vary according to the student categories. As the university continues to develop, there are more and more student categories as well as their corresponding provisions to be catered for. Students may be coming from different campuses, studying at different levels, etc. Thus the management of service provision offered by departments has become very difficult.