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by S K Tsui

In addition to the basic phone and fax service provided by the CityU IP Phone System, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) is preparing to deploy a personal fax service supported by the RightFax fax server where users can send and receive faxes using their own networked PCs. Fax server is a ...

by Henry Wong

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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

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 Joe Chow

What is Web Conferencing Service Provided? It is a commercial web conferencing service called CISCO WebEX (or WebEX). This new service is arranged and supported by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and is now available for application. As one of the leading applications in the market for holding ...

by S.K. Tsui

The PBX (Public Branch Exchange) phone system that we are currently using is over 18 years old and has already reached its end-of-life cycle. There is a great potential risk of system breakdown due to hardware failure which may impact the majority of the university community. It is therefore ...

by Henry Wong

As we have announced before, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has a plan for the provision of Microsoft (MS) Exchange server as an alternative and supported email system for the university. The MS Exchange System is more than an Email system. It is an enhanced, integrated and unified messaging ...

by John Chan

You may have experience in receiving email that looks like being sent from the "support", "service", "network/email/web administrator"... etc. of the University, and you were asked to provide your account password by either replying to the email, or clicking a link in the email to access a web page ...

by Desmond Chan

Abstract Nowadays, the Internet world is no longer a passageway for communication among people with text contents. Over the last few years there has been a dramatic improvement in the quality of IP-based network media technologies. Obviously, streaming media technologies continue to be cast into new ...

by Wilson Wong

Introduction With the advancement of broadband internet services and the availability of huge storage devices at low cost, a new trend of World Wide Web technology, Web 2.0, becomes more and more widely used. Web 2.0 [1] , as defined by Dario de Judicibus, “is a knowledge-oriented environment where ...