Simply News

Person identified as hacker by rival hacker says he’s not involved in “that hacking stuff.”

Gadget review site is collecting and presenting data on what that string of letters and numbers in the model number means.

Android 3.2 is launching on the Motorola Xoom. A couple of marquee improvements include a new zoom mode and support for long-dormant hardware. The new version of Honeycomb will also come to other tablets in the near future.

Customer service reps are telling callers that a day before unveiling a price hike, managers told them to expect some angry calls. A Wall Street analyst has accused Netflix of being unprepared for backlash.

Statistics released by a company called Find People On Plus suggest that Google’s new social-networking service is almost 75 percent male. Naturally, the No. 1 occupation for participants is “engineer.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have made his Google+ account very private. He has, however, uploaded a much more cuddly picture of himself.

Israeli researchers develop system that sounds an alarm to wake the baby and alert the parents if an infant’s skin tone changes enough to indicate a slowing heart rate.

While everyone continues to go mad over the Netflix price hikes, at least the online rental service is holding on to some of its Hollywood studio contracts and adding more content.

CNET gets a hands-on with the 4G Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices in San Francisco.

Too busy to keep up with today’s tech news? Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET for Wednesday, July 13.