When CNN released its new iPhone application this week, the big news wasn’t so much that the app was out there, but that CNN had the audacity to charge money for it. Nearly two whole dollars for news? In this online land of plenty? Bah! The Associated Press has a free news app — as it didn’t fail to point out when it covered the release of the CNN application. Also, a lot of large-scale, general interest news organizations already have special sites designed specifically for the mobile browsers on iPhones and other devices.
