Some Dropbox users started complaining that they had received spam to accounts created and used solely for Dropbox. Claims of spam sent to users started to mount and, as Dropbox didn't sell this user information, the first thought on everyone's mind was that Dropbox...
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Tablet Wars
Both Microsoft and Google presented a new tablet in the last few weeks of June. Over the coming months we'll explore the features and flaws of these devices as more detail is exposed. There will be time to explore the differences as we highlight each of these devices...
Chat With a Hacker
Researchers at AVG got an interesting visitor while analyzing a virus. The virus programmer popped in for a chat. In the AVG labs, they had installed a virus (that impostors itself as an instructional video for the new video game, Diablo 3) to take a look at what it...
SpireTech Labs: OwnCloud
Editor's note: This post is from 2012 and describes a service SpireTech no longer offers. OwnCloud is an open-source software package that allows companies to setup a dropbox-like environment for employee use. It comes with clients for windows, mac, linux,...
Your Mouse is Obsolete
A relatively new startup in the bay, Leap Motion, has been causing a stir as they have unveiled the fruits of this last year's labor - an affordable, fast, motion detection system for the PC and Mac. It has already been hailed as the final blow to the mouse. Since the...
Hot New Wheels
We recently gave the Spire Tech service vehicle a face lift - it's now emblazoned with our logo. Quite a few people have asked about the skyline and where we got it. The pencil drawing of the iconic Portland skyline was hand drawn by Architect and artist Geoff Parker....
Seagate Moves to Buy LaCie
LaCie has a large market share in Europe and Japan, markets Seagate is interested to get their brand into. More of note is LaCie had enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Apple, being the primary pioneer in the use of a new external storage technology,...
SpireTech Labs review: OnApp
At the 2011 hostingcon conference, we ran into OnApp's mega-booth right as we entered the exhibit hall. Impressive. These guys must be big, or well-funded. They claim to have some fairly large reference customers that we have heard of, so we decided to take a...
SpireTech Labs
At SpireTech, we spend a lot of time evaluating new technology. For every product or service we offer, there are probably ten that don't make the cut. We thought it would be a good idea to start sharing what we've learned - the good and the bad. Even though this...
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe announced that, along with the release of its new Creative Suite 6 they are offering Adobe Creative Cloud service which offers the use of their product suite on a monthly subscription basis. So, if you only need an adobe product for a temporary project and balk...
Google Expands Cloud Services
Google has stepped into the cloud storage arena with its new evolution of Google Docs. The service, named Google Drive, comes with 5GB of free space and payment options for up to 16TB of storage in its cloud. The client software offers central storage for documents,...
Flashback Virus Takes Apple by Storm
Security researchers are trying to get the word out to mac users that the cat is out of the bag: Mac users need to be concerned with viruses as much as anyone else. April saw the largest saturation of mac virus activity ever witnessed, infecting an estimated 600,000...
The new iPad: owner’s impressions
Windows on an iPad? Ask us how. We thought we'd revisit last month's article about the new iPad (aka the iPad 3) and give our impressions after nearly 30 days of ownership. Is it worth the $500 (at least) to upgrade? How did the upgrade experience go?...
A Lick of Paint
Spire Technologies' offices got a spruce up over the last few weeks with new carpet, floor tiles, and a paint. After a lot of deliberation over color, and a stretch of chaos during the transition, Spire's offices are looking brand spanking new (nothing in the...
SpireTech partners with VMware and Citrix
Editor's note: This post is from 2012 and describes a service SpireTech no longer offers. We continue to grow. Spire Technologies now has hosting partnerships with two of the largest forces in the virtualization industry. Both VMware and Citrix have been innovators...
The “new iPad”
Apple has released it's newest iteration of iPad tablet and remains dominant in the tablet market. The original iPad's release was a revolution in modern personal computing and the new iPad lives up to it's origins. The new iPad includes some nice upgrades to the...
