Does anybody know if there is a way to prevent automatic application update checking?

With n900 I got nasty surprise and pretty expensive update checking, when I first time in abroad (manually...) connected to mobile internet connection. I was going to transfer very small amount of data but automatic update checking started to transfer megabytes of data.

Do you have any tips what automatic services to disable in N9, so one can control how much data is transferred. Email, im, ....