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Stanford Hospital leaks 20,000 patient records

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Over 20,000 records of patients who visited the emergency room at Stanford Hospital in 2009 were posted on the internet for over a year it was disclosed today.

The leaked information included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges according to the New York Times.

The information was posted to the website Student of Fortune, a site where students can pay for tutorials on how to complete their homework.

A spreadsheet with the sensitive information was attached to a question posted to the site asking if someone could explain how to convert the information into a bar graph.

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13 LinkedIn Tips For Job Hunters

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LinkedIn offers a slew of helpful tools for landing a job, but making your profile stand out from the millions of others can sometimes seem like a daunting task. As of August 2011, the site boasted over 120 million users and more than 2 million companies worldwide.

If you want to be noticed (and hired!), one thing you should not do is describe yourself the same way everyone else does: In 2010, LinkedIn conducted a study that found the 10 most overused words on users’ profile are “extensive experience,” “innovative,” “motivated,” “results-oriented,” “dynamic,” “proven track record,” “team player,” “fast-paced,” “problem solver,” “entrepreneurial.”

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7 Apple Flops From Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs had no formal schooling in engineering, yet he’s listed as the inventor or co-inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents. There are some of the significant products that were created under his direction.

Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren’t always pretty. Here are seven products created under his direction that failed commercially or functionally:

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10 Apple Products That Defined Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs had no formal schooling in engineering, yet he’s listed as the inventor or co-inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents. These are some of the significant products that were created under his direction:

Read on to find out what this huge announcement means for Apple; to meet the company’s new CEO Tim Cook; to watch Jobs’s most iconic moments at Apple; to read Jobs’s best quotes ever; to read over his letter of resignation and to see how the web reacted to the news. Followings are the list :

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Android Most Popular Target For Mobile Malware

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The first half of 2011 was the busiest period of malware to date as increasingly sophisticated hackers set their sights on mobile devices, particularly those using Google‘s Android operating system, according to a new report.

In a report released Tuesday, the cyber-security firm McAfee said malware jumped 22 percent in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year. Google’s Android operating system was the most popular target for mobile malware developers during the second quarter, according to the report.

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