Australia’s 13th Apple Store is set to open this weekend, but unlike the iPad 2, which features an “entirely new design” and is 33% thinner, Apple’s new store is likely to be a mostly carbon copy of its existing winning designs.

Does Apple, a quintessentially American company, follow one of the more insidious practices that has occurred on occasion in its country of origin and racially profile those who visit its stores?

Victorian residents of Cheltenham are the next in line to get their very own Apple Store – all from August 13, 2011.

China (or is it iChina?) is the king of the cloners, the land where fake electronics can be more popular than the real deal, where intellectual property rights are but figments of western imagination and where not just electronics are faked, but even entire shopfronts.

Apple has booked yet another record quarterly profit on the back of - you guessed it - record revenue.

Apple’s newest and 11th Australian store is set to open on Saturday, the 23rd of July at 9am in Penrith, perhaps revealing the date Apple will launch some new Macs and OS X Lion too, if they haven’t all already launched by then!

Got a MobileMe account? Watch out for a phishing attack!

From new iPad 2 driven smart signs, to a new “Personal Setup” bench in Apple’s retail stores, the king of the crunchy kingdom is taking its already market-leading Apple Stores and making them even better, putting competitors – and much of the rest of the computing world – to shame.

Apple's recruitment site is accepting applications for vacancies at an as yet unannounced Apple Store in Melbourne, Australia.

iPad 2 stocks are non-existent at the various stores we called earlier today, including an Apple Store, although we did learn that walk-ins at Apple Stores for iPad 2’s will no longer be accepted – read on for details!