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Service and really integrate this technology into tsa security regime to better find explosives on people at the checkpoints. jon: weve got about 500 of these very sort of accurate body scanners already in use. thats millions if not billions of dollars. this is just a software fix? i mean, theyre not going to go out and have to buy 500 new machines, will they? >> no, this will be a software improvement and bear in mind this is a test. but this is a real testament to what the technology industry ...

Apple claims thats not entirely accurate. but the fact that we would get a leak like that from apple is -- >> its not entirely inaccurate either, right? >> they havent said its totally a lie. so maybe theres a grain of truth in there. >> if youve got a design of a product that people are spending hundreds of dollars on, how does that fit? >> its a misstep for apple. because so many people have been replicating this problem. its a widespread problem and what were going to see today is theyre goin...

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Megyn: a fox news alert. we are just getting word on what apple has decided to do to fix its publicized iphone 4 problem. trace gallagher will be the fix is this. if you own an iphone, the dropped calls because of the metal antenna. if you own one of these things apple will have a software fix. so you plug your apple into apple.com and they will have a software fix to cure this. they will give everybody who soans an iphone -- everybody who owns an iphone 4 a free case. if you bought one of those...

>> notice fox news alert. apple announcing a software fix for its iphone 4 antenna problems and they are considerable. the company also offering new phone cases for its customers. apples bottom line is taking a big bite out of the announcement. >> reporter: they are not really fixes, they are remedies to the problems apple is having and the stock is shooting up. apple stock is up 3%. apple stock trades for $251 a share. its up $6 or $7 already. and steve jobs made this announcement 15-20 minutes...

You -- plug your phone into apple and they will fix that for you. the problem is the antenna is wired so when you put your hand at a certain position on the phone, it disrupts the connection with the antenna and drops the call. steve jobs called this thing antenna gait. here is jobs talking moments ago. >> we are not perfect. we know that, you know that. and phones arent perfect either. but we want to make it -- make all of our users happy. if you dont know that about apple, you dont know apple....

Jobs because he wants everybody to be happy, if you dont like your iphone after 30 days and its not damaged, they will refund it. the problem was the antenna and the dropped calls. they are not going to recall the iphone 4. instead there is a software fix. if you have one of these you are going to have to go onto apple.com and they will give you have the information how to do that. steve jobs says a lot of other phones have the same problem and his suggestion was the grip is wrong. he says you h...

Their reputation, as well. i think what youre going to find out tomorrow is a fix or a proposed fix that are in the works. >> a software fix. if they come out with another just dont hold it that way kind of remark. >> people will be enraged if that is the case. a lot of pressure for apple to say, listen, there is a problem. perhaps well give you a refund. perhaps some people will say they willç propose refunds for people who got this first generation. >> if youre within 30 days of your purchas...

The companion of that video from consumer reports reads, qutd our findings call into question the recent claim by apple that the iphone 4s signal strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software." is this a polite way of saying apple was deceiving its customers even after this problem was discovered? >> yeah, i mean, basically, thats exactly when theyre saying. apple is saying that a software fix thats forthcoming in the coming weeks will be able to fix this, but theyre...

Crunch.com. thanks for your time tonight. a portion of the blog that was the companion of that video from consumer reports reads our findings call into question the recent claim by apple that the iphone 4s signal strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software." is this a polite way of saying apple was deceiving its customers even after this problem was discovered? >> yeah, i mean, basically, thats exactly what theyre saying. apple is saying that a software fix thats f...