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Recent CIS Blog Posts

• Ultra-High Speed Internet for Greenville?
  Google is going to pick one city/county in the US to test Google Fiber, and Greenville wants to be the one! The Google Fiber service would provide Internet speeds to homes and businesses in Greenville that is up to 100 times faster than current Internet connection speeds (i.e., gigabit Ethernet.) You can help Greenville become the [...]
• Legal Downloads, Wireless, and Bittorrent
  Wondering what are some good sites to legally download movies, music, and TV shows? EDUCAUSE has a list of over 50 legal sites for downloading music, movies, and TV shows over the Internet. While some of these sites use Bittorrent (a type of peer-to-peer file sharing software) to distribute legal content, Computing and Information Services does [...]
• Like Fedex Tracking for Help Desk Calls…
  There is a new feature on the FUnet portal (a.k.a., the new ARMS/WebAdvisor.) We call it the Help Desk eRequest. This feature not only lets you create a new help desk call, it also lets you look up the status of any open call you have made to the CIS Help Desk. You can also [...]
• New ARMS and more…
  UPDATE: On Friday, February 26, Furman began using the new FUnet Portal. The FUnet Portal uses ActiveCampus software from Datatel to provides an improved way to work with WebAdvisor and the system known as ARMS (Advising and Registration Made Simple.)  FUnet now has a purple LOGIN button on the left side of the web page. [...]
• Phishing warning
  An attempt to use email to trick you into revealing personal information is called phishing. Phishing is one way criminals gather information for identity theft.  Despite our campus spam filter catching many such phishing attempts, members of the Furman community continue to report receiving messages asking them to reveal their ID and password. Such messages [...]
• CIS on Twitter
  You can now use Twitter to be notified about campus technology news, announcements, and tips from Computing and Information Services (CIS). Follow the Furman_CIS twitter feed.