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it's Monday October third 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnet com and it's time to get loaded owners of HTC android phones beware there may be a security flood that can give apps access to your personal user information including email addresses notifications last network and GPS coordinates phone numbers from your phone blog text messages and system logs normally Android apps only get access to information set by user permissions but the inclusion of an HTC system logger left open a huge security hole HTC says they are working on a fix for the problem speaking of HTC they have joined other tablet makers in reducing the price of their tablets after the announcement of the breakthrough price of the Amazon Kindle Fire the 7-inch android powered HTC Fire will now cost just two hundred ninety-nine dollars down from the four hundred ninety nine dollar list price while still more expensive than the upcoming kindle fire the fire does support more storage and front and rear cameras Windows Phone 7 and windows 8 will be the only pieces of software they get Microsoft's new Metro UI screenshots and video have leaked onto the web of the next dashboard update for the xbox 360 the video and still show a new Metro fide interface with Kinect integration the new dashboard interface though does not show the heavily rumored xbox TV service Walmart and t-mobile are teaming up to offer a new phone plan that caters to data and text hungry users the new no contract plan will include unlimited internet access unloaded text messages in a hundred minutes of phone calling all for just thirty dollars per month each additional minute will cost just ten cents a minute and data will be throttled after users hit the five gigabyte mark t-mobile will be offering up to 16 phones at walmart stores including its first prepaid for g handset the plan will be available in 2,200 wal-mart stores starting at October sixteenth facebook is partnering up with websites to protect users from malicious links on facebook for now on when a user clicks on a link the new system will check the link against Webb census database to determine if the link is malicious if it is potentially dangerous at Facebook will display a security alert warning user but you can always ignore the advice finally we all know tomorrow Apple will announce the next iphone during its first ever Tim note it will be the first product unveiling with Tim Cook as CEO rumors are rampant of course but you can check cnet's live coverage of the event tomorrow analysts are predicting Apple will sell a 107 million iPhones in 2012 and in the meantime we've put together a bingo game so you can follow along to see if anyone says the word magical or one more thing those are at lines for today I'm Wilson tank for CNN com and you've just been loaded