Lenovo to steal PC crown from HP

An analyst is tipping Lenovo as a future global number one PC vendor.
 

webOS going open source in September

HP has revealed the timetable for the release of webOS under an open source licence. Open webOS 1.0 is scheduled to appear in September.
 

E-tail entrepreneur Kogan slices brand name prices

Although Ruslan Kogan has taken his surname and turned it into a brand name, there’s clearly plenty o’ cash to be made from selling existing top brands at competitively low prices, with Kogan promising “up to 46% off” retail pricing on brands like Apple, HP and Dr Dre.
 

Canon adds iOS support to uniFLOW scanning and printing manager

An update to Canon's uniFLOW scanning and printing platform provides support for all Internet enabled devices including smartphones and tablets.
 

Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrades

If you have a fairly recent Android smartphone or tablet running Gingerbread or Honeycomb you might be wondering if an upgrade to Android 4, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is in your future. We take a look at what's in store.
 

PC shipments drop with weak demand, but Lenovo pushes HP

Worldwide shipments of PCs dropped towards the end of last year as consumer demand slowed. Ultrabooks, introduced to the market in the holiday season, didn’t attract consumers, and the overall decline in PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 1.4 percent.
 

IBM sets new US patent record

IBM was granted a record number of US patents during 2011.
 

Vendors must shift focus to succeed in mobile device market

Vendors in the global mobile device market have been warned that to be consistently successful they must shift their focus to designing mobile products or building server infrastructures ready to support mobile users, bundling products with useful, relevant software or services whenever possible, and making products adaptable to the changing and increasing demands of consumers and enterprises.
 

Mobile dramatically impacts WLAN market

Cisco and Aruba have been placed in the 'leaders' category for this year and 2012 by IDC in its first report on the global enterprise wireless local area network market (WLAN), with the analyst firm reporting that the explosion of mobile devices within the enterprise is having a dramatic impact on the market, as it continues to gain momentum with vendors and end users discovering more possibilities and growth potential with mobile enterprise applications and cloud applications and services.
 

HP still Australia's top PC supplier, but Apple now number two [updated]

Despite a particularly poor performance, HP remained the leading PC vendor in Australia and New Zealand during 3Q11. Meanwhile, Apple surged into second place according to IDC's latest figures.