The launch of the new Digg app for iPhone has been a huge event so far, but Taptaptap plans to make it even bigger. Turns out that the guys have been working really hard together with Digg to developed the mobile application, and they want to celebrate the launch by giving away a limited edition Colorware iPad every day for 2 weeks. This is the official giveaway page.

Whether this might end up in a Twitter spam galore, no doubt Casasanta and company know how to get the word out for their products.

Today, the application from SecondGear Software we reviewed here, has been updated to 2.2 version, which brings Microsoft Exchange support and various UI improvements. If you missed our review, here’s an excerpt:

“It basically displays in an elegant and uncluttered window all the events and tasks you have in iCal. The cool thing is, iCal doesn’t have to be running for Today to work.It can run both in dock and the menubar only, you can assign a shortcut to invoke it, you can adjust the window’s opacity. It’s all there, in that tiny yet powerful window.”

You can download Today here. If you’re an heavy iCal user, you might want to check it out.

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Smoother than Safari (sometimes).

Gizmodo quotes an article from the official WSJ blog:

“WSJ has reported on itself by saying that “according to a person familiar with the matter,” their monthly iPad subscription will cost $17.99 a month.”

Furthermore, on advertising:

“The WSJ article also addresses advertising on the iPad—apparently Time magazine will debut its iPad version with adverts from Unilever, Toyota, Fidelity Investments and three other companies, with each ad said to be setting them back $200,000 for the full first eight issues. Meanwhile, Wired magazine will offer a little extra something for advertisers who buy eight pages of ads for each issue—with video and “extra features” promised.”

While $18 for a monthly subscription sounds a little bit high to me, at least it’s a start.

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Now with audio and video calls.

AppAdvice has just posted what it seems a real screenshot of the iBookstore, the place where we’ll be able to purchase our iBooks as soon as the iPad goes out. Well, it turns out that despite Apple taking its usual 30% of revenue from each download, the prices will be similar to Amazon’s Kindle ones - and this could be a real game changer for Apple.

Bad news for Amazon.

Macnn reports:

“As the iPad is incapable of Flash, and blocks cross-domain cookies, more interest is said to lay with in-app advertising. AdMarvel CEO Mahi de Silva notes that the iPhone 3.2 SDK allows for interstitial ads, click-to-connect commands and even video, none of which can be found in present iPhone campaigns. Most iPhone apps rely on small banners or links, which can moreover take people away from whatever content they happened to be looking at.”

Looking forward to Google’s take on this.

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Looks good.

Tested from TheiPhoneBlog guys, it surely looks good. We’ll see as soon as it’s out, anyway.