The Apple website was down earlier today and, while some rumours claimed that a white iPhone 4 might finally be about to surface, it appears that the actual reason for the downtime was a rather snazzy, if subtle, HTML5 revamp of the website. Yes, take a look atApple.comnow and you’ll spot a darker navigation bar at the top of the page and a faint wallpaper background to the site. Delve deeper and the HTML5 makes itself obvious in the form of small animations....

The Motley Fool blogdetails a breakdown of Apple’s sales and profit growth by region and based on the recorded sales from 2005 to 2010, both of which are highest in the Asia Pacific region by a considerable margin compared to the tech-savvy regions of America, Europe and Japan. While America and Europe continue to be Apple’s largest market in terms of profit, the staggering growth rates in the Asia-Pacific — 727% in sales and 2,991% in profit — in the past five years make it highly imaginable for the region to constitute the company’s largest market in the next half-decade, maybe even sooner....

Apple has today announced the dates for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), commencing on June 6 through to June 10 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The five day conference will see Apple unveil the latest developments within its iOS and Mac OS platforms, showcasing the different apps that can be created using Apple’s software frameworks, in over 100 sessions: “At this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing....

Apple’s WWDC event,announced yesterday, sold out in a matter of hours after tickets went on sale, smashing the previous sales record of its 2010 event by over 7 days. Tickets for the five day event, which commences on June 6, cost developers $1599 for the chance to be able to interact with fellow professionals but also to see what Apple has planned for its iOS and Mac OS X platforms....

The past week has been quite a roller-coaster for Apple; the company finally ended the 15-month wait for a new iPhone,launching the iPhone 4Swith its dual-core A5 processor, 8-megapixel camera, dual-antennae and Siri voice assistant, but also because its visionary co-founder and talismanic leaderSteve Jobs finally succumbed to his battle with pancreatic cancer. Whilst the headlines have been dominated by Jobs’ sudden and unexpected death, Apple’s iPhone 4S launch came with some criticism, as many expected the Cupertino-based company to introduce the iPhone 5, with a drastically redesigned chassis and teardrop design, but received it’s low-cost but high-powered counterpart....