This morning, as I have for the couple of days, I checked the App Store in iTunes for new applications for my 8GB iPhone 3G.  I noticed that when I sorted the new applications by release date that the NYTimes application showed a release date of July 16, 2008.  I thought that it was odd since I know I got that application on the first day of the 3G release.

Turns out that it is an updated version, however when clicking the Check for Updates link in Applications section of my iTunes library I got the following dialog box:

So apparently the update check mechanism in iTunes doesn’t work.  I hope that they get this fixed soon.  Even better would be an e-mail notification that a new version of the application is available.