News

December 2007

by Joe Chow

From Telephone to Video Conference Since its invention in 1876, no other means of communication has revolutionized people's daily lives more than the telephone. In fact, the communication technology is gradually migrating from analog to digital, and the digital technology makes it possible for ...

September 2007

by Raymond Poon

The Hong Kong SAR Government has recently enacted The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (UEMO). Phase I of the Ordinance commenced operation on 1 June 2007, and Phase II will come into effect on a date to be decided and notified by Gazette, probably towards the end of 2007. The CIO wrote to ...

June 2007

by Henry Wong

Eudora has been staff's standard email client software since the 1990s. Due to its weak security features and the lack of multi-language features, it is no longer a suitable email client tool for most of our users. The Computing Services Centre (CSC) has been providing support to both Microsoft ...

March 2007

by Henry Wong

It is a known fact that Email Spam (or Junk Email) cause annoyance and pose security threats to our users. What is not trivial and yet has significant impact to users is that these spam emails use up a lot of system resources and affect the quality of the Email services. Since last fall, the amount ...