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Day 2 of the X2 Aspen Community Conference

Here I am again at the X2 Aspen Community Conference. While X2 Aspen information is obviously of most interest to X2 Aspen users, users of the countless SIS products out there should feel free to chime in and let us know where their SIS is ahead, behind, or otherwise...

Tags: Asset, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, X2, Pando, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Getting customer service right

All of a sudden, I was getting worried. A couple months ago the customer service for our SIS really hit the "less than stellar" mark. X2, a company that I chose largely because of outstanding customer service, in addition to a great web-based product, was suddenly taking weeks...

Tags: Customer Service, Call-center, X2, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, It Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Hands on with a Web-based SIS

I've talked a fair amount about Web-based vs. client-server student information systems. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but as regular readers know, we made the move to the Web-based X2 Aspen SIS about a year and a half ago, after a miserable experience with Chancery's (now Pearson School...

Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., Web, Client-server, SiS, X2, Channel Management, Servers, Marketing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Hands on with X2's Aspen SIS

Screenshots from X2's Aspen web-based student information system by Christopher Dawson

Tags: SIS, X2

Image galleries 2008-03-24

X2 - The Threat Rolling demo (Windows)

X2: The Threat is space simulation on the PC taken to a new level. Trade your way through the space lanes and achieve mogul status. Fight your way through dozens of interlinked missions within an all-new storyline. Build your empire of stations and ships across the Universe. X2 is a...

Tags: Enlight Software, X2, Games, Piracy, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-11-13

Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Gateway NV5207u

The Gateway NV5207u is what happens when a slow processor happens to an otherwise respectable budget-priced laptop. It's a good-looking notebook with a large screen, a decent port assortment, and a couple of extra features to sweeten the deal. But its AMD processor is a poor performer despite being dual...

Tags: Processors, Gateway Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor

Product reviews 2009-11-05

Auction X2 1.1.0.81 (Windows)

Auction X2 provides the eBay seller with detailed graphs and reports, a local complete database of imported information from the sellers eBay account, accountancy features and automated e-mail marketing allowing the seller to keep in touch with previous buyers when a similar item is for sale to those they have...

Tags: Seller, Microsoft Windows, eBay Inc., Auction, E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-02

DSP-Quattro 3.1.2 (Mac)

Record and edit your audio files. Innovative Recording options, to record Multiple inputs and outputs on HD in real time, even while playing Plug-in Instruments by MIDI and/or audio files. Add your favourites Plug-ins while doing a new recording. Record the audio Output exactly as you are listening to it....

Tags: Audio, Apple Macintosh, MIDI, Plug-in, Audio File

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Asus Eee Top ET2002

Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics

Product reviews 2009-10-20

AMD rolls out 8 new Athlon CPUs in time for Windows 7

Too littleI've bought AMD CPUs in the past, but they lost their edge with Intel's release of Core 2. AMD has yet to recover. I just don't see myself going AMD to save $50. Frankly, $100 won't move me when I consider I will keep a new...

Tags: Processors, CPU, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Intel Core i5, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, Core i5, Intel Corp., AMD Athlon

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Will Windows 7 have the right touch?

The touch interface has arrived on smartphones, thanks largely to the iPhone. But it hasn't found much mainstream success on the PC despite years of trying. The imminent arrival of Windows 7, which has multi-touch support built-in, and a separate Touch Pack with sample apps and games, has rekindled interest...

Tags: John Morris

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Acer Aspire Z5610: Acer's first all-in-one multi-touch desktop

Lovely yet underpowered and poorly pitchedFrom the Article[i]Discrete ATI Mobility Radeon graphics display images in vivid color and sharp detail, while Intel Pentium Dual Core processors fuel the system with significant power.[/i]I am trying to remember when a Dual Core Pentium Proc was considered significant power. At one time...

Tags: Processors, multi-touch, significant power, processor, Acer Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Averatec D1133 All-In-One

Does a certain price make a nonmobile computer a Nettop? How about a particular CPU or case design? The Averatec D1133 All-In-One blurs the lines. Its low price and relatively slow performance make an argument for calling it a Nettop. But even though it's slow by conventional PC standards, thanks...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Monitors & displays, Averatec Inc., nettop

Product reviews 2009-09-30

Lenovo C300-3012 (Atom 230 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)

If we to adopt a relativist approach and consider Nettops apart from the larger desktop market, we might actually recommend the $549 Lenovo C300. It includes an uncommonly large 20-inch wide-screen display and performs better than many of its peers because of a slightly faster Intel Atom CPU. Standing in...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Desktops, hard drive, Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo C300

Product reviews 2009-09-23

AMD, Intel battle for the mainstream - how low can quad-core go?

Two stories about AMD jumped out at me this week. First, market researcher iSuppli reported that Intel had increased its share of the worldwide PC processor market, by revenues, to more than 80 percent--a level it hasn't reach in nearly four years. AMD lost share not because it is selling...

Tags: AMD Athlon, Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Athlon II X4, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Quad-core CPU for $99 ... from AMD

The Athlon II X2 comes with 1MB...L2 per core. It's too bad they didn't use 1MB per core for the X4.2M divided by 4 is 512KNope, it comes with 2MB of L2, divided by 4 cores gives us 512K per core.Adrian has it right.BradDid you read his Post?He said "Too...

Tags: Network technology, money saving, quad-core CPU, Adrian, DDR3, motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, HyperTransport, DDR3 RAM, CPU

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

HTC and Sony Ericsson announce WM 6.5 devices coming next month

Last week I talked about the summer Windows Mobile lovefest, but it is not quite over yet as both HTC and Sony Ericsson announced Windows Mobile 6.5 devices launching as early as 6 October. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 has a form factor very similar to the X1 with some...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2, Mobile Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 photos

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 is the successor to the Xperia X1. by CNET News.com

Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Photograph, Sony Ericsson Xperia X2, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-02

The choices for thin, low-cost ULV laptops expand

Just when I was starting to wonder what happened to all those ultra-low voltage ULV laptops, computer makers opened the flood gates. These laptops, which are thinner, lighter and less costly than mainstream notebooks, are now available in a range of display sizes, including some models with 11.6-inch displays that...

Tags: Hard Drive, Battery, Acer Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Intel Corp., MSI, Aspire 1410, IdeaPad U450p, X600, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-09-01