Here are some recent, interesting stories in the news relating to the iPhone, starting and ending with the Wall Street Journal:
- Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal updates his review of MobileMe and he likes it. If you work at a company that uses Microsoft Exchange, then you know how useful it is to have your e-mail, calendar and contacts automatically synced between your computer and your iPhone. If you are not in an Exchange environment, MobileMe can give you a similar experience for $99 a year.
- Former attorney and now full-time mother Jennifer of the These Are Days blog writes about her recent experience buying an iPhone and how it was a big deal for her. I felt the same way when I first got my iPhone, and it is fun to read about similar experiences of others. (By the way, Jennifer has a nice blog. I liked this post about the differences between her former life as an attorney and her current life.)
- Do you and your spouse both have an iPhone? iLounge discusses two chargers that let you charge both at one time. They posted a review of the $45 Dual Dock Charger being sold by RichardSolo, and compared it to the Griffin Powerdock 2 which you can get on Amazon for $30.
- Macworld reports that market research firm Forrester finds more evidence that the iPhone works great in large businesses. For example, almost half the mobile phone users at Kraft now use iPhones, and the company orders 400 more every month. AppleInsider also wrote about the Forrester report.
- Steven Frank wrote a very interesting analysis of user interfaces, from the keyboard + command line to the mouse + desktop to multitouch on the iPhone. It is a fascinating read. Thanks to Daring Fireball for bringing it to my attention.
- LinkedIn, which is sort of the grown-up version of Facebook, now has an iPhone app. But according to Dale Gardner of Macworld, it is just okay.
- Looking for a really short docking cable for the iPhone? CableJive sells an $8 cord called iStubz that is around 3 inches long and a $9 version that is around 9 inches long.
- If you want to read the Wall Street Journal online, you need to pay about $100 a year. Or, you can just get the new, free Wall Street Journal iPhone app, and access all of the content for free. Rick Broida writes about the app for CNET and David Chartier reviews the app for Macworld.