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Live coverage on friday anchored by msnbcs own chris jansing and martin bashir beginning at 3:00 a.m. eastern friday. and for all things royal, dont forget to visit our free nbc news royal wedding app for android, iphone, and ipad. and what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? thats next right here. [ woman ] welcome back, jogging stroller. youve been stuck in the garage, while my sneezing and my itchy eyes took refuge from the dust in here and the pollen outside. but w...

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>> go ahead. >> in the larger context, every phone kind of does this. >> its nothing unique, the android phones track you and im not sure about blackberries, but googles android will track so its not unique. >> androids dont store as much data, they only store, you know, maybe a month or so of data. its not clear. i think the bigger conversation everybody needs to have is we all have these devices that are so smart, they know so much about us, how much really do we want them to know and, you kno...

A case of big brother? privacy advocates are voicing concern after learning this week that apples iphone and googles android smartphones regularly transmit the locations of their users. critics say this could help your spouse to burglars find out where you are every minute of the day. joining me live now is joe brown, features editor with gizmoto. these tracking devices, whats the purpose of them? >> early this week at the whether 2.0 conference there was discovered a file on the iphone that had...

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"wall street journal" which is owned by the parent company of this network google receives the data several times an hour. officials have release add statement saying the data collection is anonymous and you can use that feature off on the android. some lawmakers are demanding antis from apple of the tracking features on their phone. security experts say they have found a hidden file own many of the devices. with up to a years worth of location information stored there. the next iphone is on the...

Apple is seeing fierce competition from gag and android platform. brand new i-15s or -- brand new iphones. good news. >> this is actually a blackberry playbook, the new kid on the block. it is kind of tough because this is a product i was very excited about. there we go. there we go. very excited about because it is 7", great looking screen, doesnt have the cellar radio in it, but the big remember, and block barry was all about, right, best e-mail device you ever had, guess what? in e-mail, no n...

>> cant wait. take care, chris. bye-bye. >> heading to see the folks in london. special coverage begins next thursday here. and of course, for all things royal, do not forget our free, free royal wedding app. you can get it for the android, iphone and ipod. todays tweet of the day comes from potential gop presidential candidate who writes, im humbled to be on the 2011 time 100 list. its reflection of a growing voice of americans speaking for liberty. ♪

Can think the worst. >> can you turn it off? can you disable it? >> you cannot disable it. it doesnt use the location services part of the phone. it uses the cell phone tower information which caress have always collected. you can turn your phone off and you can choose to encrypt your data when you transfer it from your phone to your computer when youre syncing. but for now it is there. >> it is just apple or are there other mobile device companies doing this? >> all we know for all we know, no ...