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CNN – no matter what you can say about it, it beats the rest of the news media on breaking news, intuitive and broad coverage presented online and on cables.

Getting CNN on the phone is also very easy.

Just type cnn.com and it will let you know the address where you need to go or it will automatically goto it. Awesome.

Depending on your phone. Everything looks awesome. Doesn’t it ?

Breaking news are there. Most of tech news remain pretty much the same except a few new entries for day (based on my observation of 7 days).

With Economy like this, politic has more than Tech. It’s not a blame for CNN. What’s hot will always sell.

As for Iphone users, they can view the site from Iphone’s built in Safari (internet browser) You can view exactly as the site is or auto formatted for Iphone. Videos are awesome, it’s FREE. **** (don’t forget those four stars, my talk will come back to it later)

Digging deeper, I found myself playing with Apple Store or just App Store which we find it on our Iphone’s 4G.

No body can argue that free apps have helped apple’s Iphone rocket lauched a bit further into the space.

After knowing that your phone bill will be pretty big, all you will be looking for is “FREE” and not all FREE is what they seem to be. Some are cool others have ADs and some will bomard you with not one but bunches of popups (well, internet pages?)

But what about Apps for news ? There are a couple (as of this date of writing) that actually beated my expectation. But it’s very sad that in the “FREE” category there is no CNN. What a joke ?

You need to pay CNN ?

That’s why I put the topic “Could CNN BE ALL ABOUT MONEY?” I read the description and oh yes, reviews by none other than the newspapers and top CEOS (Now, how do I know this ? go figure…… who is going pay money for CNN when even the paid version is AD Supported. I couldn’t believe it. )

CNN ! Please release your app as free or remove Ads on the content if someone is paying for it. Why buy an app that as ADs ? I might consider throwing a few bucks to your App if you could just disable the Ads and wonder how many people will buy your App. But perhaps not everyone likes your broadcast with so many others to choose from such as Foxnews, ABC, etc.

My guess is that CNN is targeting only 1% of the population of United States ? Would you be getting more if you targeted the rest ?

To me, after buying a product, seeing content with Ad simply means, money. Is CNN all about money ? Without Ads, are you really going to be broke ? But wait… If you are offering a paid application on App Store and you are offering contents supported by AD, why not make it free ?

Have a great week everyone.

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Those interested in FREE News Apps for your Iphone. Look for these.

ABC, FOXNEWS, NPRS and there are much more… (I am sorry there are no links — just search them once you hit that App Store. )

Have a great week you all.