Analyst Ashok Kumar says supply chain checks show the company has come up with a design fix that “more adequately insulates the transceiver module.”

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Apple issues iOS 4.0.1 to customers via iTunes. The update is intended to more accurately display how the iPhone’s signal bar strength is calculated.

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You have to cross milestones somewhere, and for CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman, making it to 2,000 miles of driving on Road Trip 2010 happened on a side street in Southington, Conn.

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In open letter to Steve Jobs, New York senator calls on Apple to be more transparent about iPhone 4 antenna problems and provide users with free solution.

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PopCap is bringing its Zuma series to Facebook, following up on the success of Bejeweled Blitz, which is one of the most popular distractions on the massive social network.

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We recently asked Ars staffers and OpenForum users to list all of the devices that they consider to be part of their home theater setup, excluding core components like receivers, speakers, displays, and DVRs. The idea was to get a sense of what else the early adopters among our staff and forum members are using in their home theater setups—i.e., apart from the obvious candidates for “#1 most popular home theater component,” what would come in at #2?

The answers were many and varied—some were very brand-specific, and some were vague, but we lumped them all together in order to poll our broader audience to see just how popular the various devices and device categories are. Now, before we get into the results, a few explanations and caveats are in order.

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Apple has decided to hold a short-notice press conference to discuss the iPhone 4, which most people believe will address the uproar over iPhone 4 antenna issues. Whether that will actually be the case remains to be seen, but we will be there to find out. The event begins at 10am PDT/1pm EDT (see it in your own timezone).

Will Steve Jobs issue a recall, or merely teach the press how to hold the phone properly? Sign up below to receive an e-mail alert when we go live or simply bookmark this page and come back on Friday morning when the conference begins.

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It’s no secret that HP wants to get into the tablet market with a slate-like product that will go head to head with Apple’s iPad. Microsoft and HP announced a high-profile partnership to develop a Windows 7 slate, but the product never made it past the prototype stage and was quietly killed by HP. Now it looks like HP’s plan B, an Android-based tablet that was expected to arrive by year-end, has also been put on hold and won’t ship in that timeframe.

The news was reported by the AllThingsD blog, which cites unnamed sources close to HP. The move comes as no surprise, because HP’s recently completed acquisition of Palm furnishes the hardware giant with its very own Linux-based mobile operating system. Using Palm’s webOS would allow HP to differentiate its slate products from the flurry of upcoming Android-based tablets that will soon flood the market.

HP has stated publicly that it plans to grow webOS beyond smartphones and bring the platform to other kinds of form factors. The rumors suggest an October launch date for a webOS slate. It would be a welcome contender in the tablet market and would give consumers some much-needed choice. If such a product is successful, it seems highly unlikely that an Android device from HP will ever materialize.

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When location-based services started becoming popular in the mobile world, there was a contingency of jaded skeptics who joked about increased robberies and stalking incidents. It turns out that those concerns reflect what users are really thinking: more than half of people who use geolocation services on their mobile phones are worried about a loss of privacy, according to survey data from Webroot.

Webroot’s data shows that 39 percent of social network users who own geolocation-ready mobile devices use these services. Fifty-five percent of those people are concerned about a loss of privacy and 45 percent are worried about potential burglars knowing when they’re away from home. Forty-nine percent of female users said they were “highly concerned” about letting a stalker know their whereabouts (32 percent of men echoed this), and those over 40 tended to be more worried about all of the above than those between 18 and 39.

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The Super Audio CD (SACD) format may never have entered the mainstream market after Sony and Philips started pushing it back in 1999, but some audio fanatics out there still believe in the quality of these CDs. Good news for them: Sony today announced [JP] the SCD-XE800, their newest SACD player, which is specifically marketed as an entry-level device.

The player supports both the SACD and conventional CD formats, but it’s not compatible to multi-channel SACD. Buyers can expect a frequency response of 2Hz〜40kHz (SACD)/2Hz〜20kHz (CD) and a dynamic range of over 100dB (SACD)/96dB (CD).

Sony Japan plans to start selling the SCD-XE800 on August 21 for $430. International sales plans haven’t been announced yet.

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