Software developer Joey Hess discovered that his Palm pre sends information to Palm about his location, application crashes and third party apps, on a daily basis over a secure connection. Palm has released a statement in which they say that users can turn certain features on and off, and that Palm takes privacy very serious.
Joey Hess eventually found a way to turn off the data collection by Palm and Palm commented on the issue that it has no intentions to violate trust. Yeah, surely Palm is not interested in violating trust, after all they did allow the user to turn off data collection, right?
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Yesterday Microsoft has announced that the Zune HD is now available for pre order. The product will ship September 15th. The Tegra powered gem will come in a 16 and 32 GB version and sports an OLED screen, WiFi and is capable of 720p playback. I can't wait to try out this little fellow: the first Tegra powered device on the market. 
A reliable source, 'familiar with the system' has stated that the Mactablet is due in the first half of 2010. This means that Apple most likely will not announce the Mactablet during the supposed Apple event in September. The absence of a Mactablet this year does not mean one cannot expect some interesting things in the near future. Some major tablet announcements are expected during the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco in September. Now when can we expect the first Tegra tablets to show up?
