Fortune yesterday released its 2012 "Fortune 500" list , ranking America's largest companies by revenue.

As revealed by Apple's iPad selection page for Latin America , the new iPad will be launching in 13 new countries in that region this Friday, May 11. The most significant new addition is Brazil, where Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn has been ramping up production on iPhone and iPad production.

Apple's new senior vice president of Retail, John Browett , has introduced himself to Apple Retail employees in an email obtained by IFO Apple Store . Team, At last I've officially started at Apple, and it's great to be here

While there has been much debate about whether Apple will refer to the next-generation iPhone as "iPhone 5", "iPhone 6", simply "iPhone", or something else entirely, Fusible notes that Apple has filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) seeking to gain control of the iPhone5.com domain. WIPO authorities are currently assessing compliance of Apple's claim with the agency's regulations, and proceedings are likely to be initiated in the near future

Speaking at a conference this week, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson noted that he only had one regret about AT&T being the first cellular carrier to support the iPhone. As reported by the New York Times : “My only regret was how we introduced pricing in the beginning, because how did we introduce pricing? Thirty dollars and you get all you can eat,” he said in the on-stage interview at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference on Wednesday.

Last month, it was discovered that Apple quietly tweaked the 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad 2, equipping the device with a smaller 32-nm die shrink of the A5 system-on-a-chip previously used in the line. The tweaked iPad 2 carries an internal identifier of "iPad2,4", which was first spotted in an iOS 5.1 beta back in November, but at the time it was unclear what the model represented. A similar die shrink of the A5 was found in the new Apple TV, and it appears that Apple made the move in order to test out production of next-generation chip processes in lower-volume devices.

Apple has released a number of updates to several of its apps for the iPhone and iPad. The iLife apps, iPhoto , Garageband , and iMovie , all received minor updates, while Apple also pushed out bug fixes to the Cards greeting-card app, and to iTunes U

Advertising tracking firm Ace Metrix today shared its data on viewer reactions to Apple's new celebrity iPhone 4S ads featuring Siri and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel

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Apple has replaced the iMacs that were previously on the kids' table at its retail stores with iPads, as first noticed by iMore . The switch is a clear sign of the direction the company is going, particularly with regards to its younger customer base.