Next month, Apple CEO Tim Cook will return for the annual conference put on by All Things D – D11. which will kick off May 28th.

Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD announced Tuesday that Cook will open the D11 conference.

Cook provided his first major interview as the CEO of Apple during D10 last year.

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On Thursday morning, tickets to Apple’s 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference went on sale. Two minutes later, the annual developers extravaganza was sold out.

The fastest sellout in WWDC history, it took two hours – not two minutes – for the 2012 conference to sellout.

Generating stronger-than-usual interest this year is the revelation by Apple that both iOS and OS X refreshes will be unveiled at the conference this summer.

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Late last month, the Mobile Marketing Association announced that it will present its New York Forum: Mobile’s Role in the Path to Purchase earlier than originally anticipated. Instead of June, the MMA is bumping up the event to May 8-10.

As of February 28th, registration for the event was open. Friday morning, however, the MMA sent out an email blast reminding potential attendees that early bird registration ends today.

“With 1000+ of the Mobile industry’s key brand, agency, technology and media influencers expected at this years’ event, the NY Forum reflects the growing power of mobile and it’s value in the path to purchase,” the organization says.

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Google announced Friday that registration for Google I/O 2013 will commence March 13th at 7:00 AM Pacific.

Last month, Google confirmed that its annual developers conference would take place in May this year, moving the popular event back a month from its usual June start date.

The event is currently set for May 13th through May 15th.

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The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is gearing up for the 2013 MMA Forum San Francisco next month (January 29-30).

According to an email blast from the organization this week, the event promises to deliver an incredible lineup of the industry’s leading brand and retail marketers. The presenters “will share their personal experiences and points of views on the hottest trends shaping mobile marketing today.”

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Venerable tech giant Apple is going to present at the 2012 Black Hat security conference this week, marking the first time the iDevice maker has appeared in a formal capacity at the event.

We are told that Dallas De Atley, manager of Apple’s platform security team, will deliver a presentation on “key security technologies within iOS.”

It’s significant because in recent years, Apple products have been stripped of their image of being hack-proof. The company’s rise has made it a bigger target, as hackers have been discovering bugs in the iPhone since it came out in 2007. Earlier this year, more than 600,000 Macs were infected, the first major malicious software attack targeting Apple computers.

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As widely expected, Microsoft today gave the world its first look and the hotly anticipated and long-rumored features of the new Windows Phone 8, which will formally launch this fall with the new Windows Surface tablet.

Based on the first impressions reported across the tech blogophere, Microsoft may have developed a true “iPhone killer” with its forthcoming smartphone previewed just minutes ago at the Windows Phone Developer Summit.

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