Apple has announced officially that they have sold out WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) that is scheduled to start with Steve Jobs widely anticipated keynote on June 9th.

Developers still interested in the conference are being asked to wait for the immediate aftermath, at which Apple will upload the videos of events to iTunes. Some clips should become available with a free developer account; others, however, will require a paid membership.

WWDC runs June 9th to the 13th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and will for the first time have three separate development tracks: iPhone, Mac and IT.

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Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs, along with a “team of Apple executives,” will deliver the keynote at this year’s WWDC conference. The event is scheduled for 10AM PT on Monday June 9th, at Moscone Center, San Francisco. Apple notes that it will focus on Mac OS X Leopard, and “OS X iPhone,” as it is now branding the iPhone’s firmware.

Much is in anticipation on the iPhone front with supplies of the iPhone seeing shortages and most analysts thinking a 3G iPhone with GPS is looming.

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iPhone is as “currently unavailable” at the online Apple Stores in the US and the UK. I posted yesterday that O2 the wireless carrier for the iPhone in the UK website also listed it as unavailable. Stores in NYC also seem to be suffering from an iPhone shortage.

With only 2 millions Zunes sold to date since they went on sale in November 2006 it looks like Microsoft’s plan has “no bragging rights.” The plan? The plan that was to take on the iPod and Apple head to head instead of the PlaysForSure partnership.

In fact it appears that the Zune is mostly taking sales from Creative a former PlaysForSure partner, not Apple or second-place SanDisk.

Zune sales look like a total flatline. Apple sold more iPods in on month last quarter than Microsoft sold Zune since it was introduced in 2006.

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O2 iPhones are now sold out: “Please note: 8GB and 16GB iPhone are no longer available.”

According to Reuters, Vodafone has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten countries around the world.

“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” Britain-based Vodafone said in a statement.

Also see Fortune’s iPhone graphic: Apple’s new map of the world

Apple’s stock [AAPL] is certainly on a tear the last few sessions re-gaining a lot of the loses since the market pull back. With sales up and almost $20 billion in the bank it should be.

Note that as of this writing APPL is trading at $184.73 up $3.79 with a market value of $162.83 billion higher than Cisco’s market value of $156.66 billion and more than 4 times Dell’s market value now at $39.01 billion. Bet Michael Dell wished he was running Apple now!

Disclaimer: the writer owns a small amount of Apple stock.

Apple announced that several movie studios will now be releasing digital versions of their movies for sale on the same day as the DVD. Now Apple TV users have the option of buying movies directly from the Apple TV, under a new section called “Top Sellers.” Before today you could only rent movies from Apple TV.

With rumors flying after Apple being a “no show” at NAB this year, Apple denies Final Cut Pro is NOT going anywhere.

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Apple today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios.

Apple is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the iTunes Store with a look at back at “all of the great music, video, and exclusives” highlighting the songs and shows that defined each year. On its iTunes store, Apple is offering a brief history along with a collection of “best sellers.”

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Apple this morning has introduced major performance upgrade to the iMac line using Core 2 Duo processors based on Intel’s new 45 nanometer Penryn architecture. All models now include a 1,066MHz system bus that is still unavailable on any official Intel mobile Core 2 chip, and the top-end model runs at 3.06GHz. All additionally include a larger 6MB of Level 2 cache. An optional GeForce 8800 GS provides faster 3D for gaming is available on the 24-inch model.

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Apple has introduced an update to the MacBook Pro that features multi-touch trackpads, bigger hard drives and faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors. I am a little late reporting this one.

The video above is from around November 2007 where he smashes a Zune with a bat, so it is not so surprising that Jim Cramer from TheStreet.com is pro-Apple now. Jim Cramer is a well respected investment analyst, that was interviewed recently about Apple. Here is a link to the video where he explains that Apple’s competitors are no longer relevant.