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

An exciting announcement yesterday as Lenovo announced their agreement with Polycom inc. to deliver HD audio and HD voice in future Lenovo products.

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.

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.

Huawei Australia has appointed Luke Austin as its chief financial officer.

Lenovo has strengthened its Australian and New Zealand executive team with the appointment of a new director for its SMB business in the region.

Lenovo has boosted its Australian and New Zealand sales team with the appointment of a new channel manager as the company ramps up its PC sales efforts in the region.

With worldwide PC shipments totalling 91.8 million units in the three months to the end of September this year – falling short of forecasts by around two percent – the consumer PC market continued to be weak as the popularity of non-PC devices, including media tablets, like the iPad and smartphones, took consumers' spending away from PCs.

In a speech on a report about the potential of the National Broadband Network (NBN), Labor MP Ed Husic has hit out at overseas technology firms offering products for much higher prices in Australia, saying it’s hampering Australian businesses ability to compete on the world stage.

Lenovo's aiming its latest notebooks at students, professionals and SMEs.