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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston's 2013 MIT commencement address transcript

Below is the prepared text of the commencement address by Drew Houston '05, the CEO of Dropbox, for MIT's 147th commencement held June 7, 2013.

In Pictures: 10 amazing Linux desktop environments you've probably never seen

One of the most amazing things about Linux is how versatile it is.

Melinda Gates tells Duke grads: It's all about your real connections

Transcript of technologist/philanthropist Melinda Gates' commencement address to Duke University graduates.

In Pictures: 12 Linux nerds you should follow

There are a lot of personalities out there in the Linux corner of the Internet.

Cisco, Brocade, Riverbed, HP among Best of Interop finalists

Nearly two dozen products have been selected as Best of Interop finalists, with winners set to be announced on May 7 during the annual Interop Las Vegas conference.

In Pictures: A visual history of Linux

The 10 biggest leaps forward in the look and feel of the Linux desktops

Storage strategies for the brave new world

The enterprise storage picture is changing fast as resources are abstracted through virtualization, new computing options like cloud are embraced, and companies search for ways to extract more value out of the data they already are swimming in, even as more arrives in the guise of big data.

The year in tech: It's all about the cloud and SDNs

2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry’s biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed its workforce as CEO Meg Whitman reshaped an industry icon that has gone through many shifts in recent years. The transformation to the cloud continued practically unabated (save for those pesky outages!) and suddenly every company seemed to be a software defined something or other, or was snapping up an SDN company.

Get ahead of the BYOD wave

Why fight employees' constant barrage of bringing in their own devices. We are far past that point, it is time to accept it and find a way to make it BYOD work within the confines of your network.

NICS and net management: Emulex buying Endace

Emulex, a Costa Mesa, Calif., maker of products for connecting servers, storage and switches in data centers, is buying New Zealand network performance management company Endace for about $130 million in cash.

Tech job market on the upswing

To see the state of the job market for tech workers, just look at the headlines over the past few months:

VIDEO: Mining social media for hotel customer feedback

As more hotel guests use social media to express their feedback with a hotel after a stay instead of filling out a customer comment card, many hotels need to mine data from social networks to see how they’re doing. In this video news report from the IDG News Service, we get to meet a company that can help the hospitality industry get that data.

Ballmer letter about Sinofsky departure

Here is the letter Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, sent to Microsoft employees about the departure of the company's president of Windows and Windows Live, Steven Sinofsky.

Go Daddy CEO's outage apology

Go Daddy Site Outage Investigation Completed (Sept. 11, 2012)

Trade judge rules Samsung infringed Apple phone patents

Samsung is guilty of infringing four Apple patents, according to a ruling Tuesday by a U.S. trade judge. The legal victory is Apple's latest in its ongoing battle with arch rival Samsung.