Wednesday’s Apple Rumors — Track Changes

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Here are your Apple rumors and news items for Wednesday: Tracking Trouble: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) has come under enough fire this week to respond to users over why its mobile software tracks users’ locations. A fact sheet issued on Apple’s website Wednesday addresses why a bug in the platform has been recording location information of iPad and iPhone users and assures customers that it will be removed in an upcoming software update. Apple was summoned on Tuesday to speak at the “Protecting Mobile Privacy” hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy in May. iPad 2 Comes to Asia: The iPad 2′s delayed release in much of eastern Asia following the March earthquake in Japan will end this week when Apple releases the tablet in 12 countries. Citizens in Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan will now be able to purchase a new iPad. The tablet also will be released in India, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey. A wider release in China will take place on May 6. As with the original iPad, only Wi-Fi models of the new tablet will be available in China. Android Ahead: It’s difficult to keep straight the multiple metrics measuring the iPhone’s competition with Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android operating system. While Android leads in terms of global market share, i.e., there are more phones in consumer hands running Android than there are iPhones, it lags behind Apple’s platform in revenue generated. According to Nielsen, at least, Android is winning the smartphone war in the U.S. A new study, reprinted at Mac Rumors , shows that Android controls 37% of the U.S. smartphone market as of March, with Apple controlling 27%, and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ) following both with 22% of the market. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) controls just 10%, while Hewlett-Packard’s (NASDAQ: HPQ ) Palm/WebOS platforms and Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK ) Symbian control 3% and 2%, respectively. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at  @ajohnagnello  and  become a fan of  InvestorPlace on Facebook.