What do you think of this first ad for WP7? Feeling hyped about this yet?

Web searches for the code indicate that for the most part, the survey only appeared there — but the size of this infection is stunning: potentially as many as five million websites. Researchers at Armorize say the infected widget would be installable on Blogger, Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. I guess the best advice here is that if you’ve recently ended up on a parked domain, scan your computer now for viruses.

Gruber speculates this is where the phone would need to be in order to make it to a January 2011 release, which seems to be the date many are fixated on for its release. He cautions however that the news does not necessarily mean Verizon’s getting it: there are other CDMA carriers after all.

According to Bilton’s sources, the company has already looked into producing MP3 players, portable electronics, and even an Amazon phone. The phone is probably the biggest stretch for them, but hasn’t been 100% ruled out just yet. Either way, the company’s moves are all about protecting its position in the digital content space. Guess they’re just not all about books anymore, eh?

Some 12 percent of all tweets originate from the country, the single biggest contributor to Twitter traffic. Some say the language itself is the reason: saying something in 140 Kanji characters would be a much more complete thought than in 140 Roman ones.

It’s not clear why the phone may be heating up — then again, one could venture a guess that iOS4 may be taxing the phone a bit more that its predecessor. Any one with a iPhone 3G and iOS4 — are you seeing these problems?

The problem may actually get worse before it gets better: LG may ramp down production slightly next month. It is considering adding new production lines for Apple’s iPad displays, however, according to the Reuters report.

Nine new markets for the device were launched today, which means the device is now available in a total of 19 countries. About 3.27 million iPads have sold — approximately one million every month.

On the company’s status page, Twitter acknowledged the problem, but didn’t lay the blame on the World Cup match. “We’ve received reports of elevated error rates for users; we’re currently investigating,” it reads. The last time Twitter’s Failwhale was making a regular appearance was on the 23rd of June, the day of Algeria’s match with USA that catapulted it into the first knockout round.

The “universal service obligation” would be handled by about 26 different nationwide providers who would offer service around the country. It should not be too difficult: Finland is one of the world’s most wired countries, but only about 26 percent have a broadband connection–about the same as the United States.