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

If you’ve ever used Apple’s iOS, and then had to suffer through the mishmash of interfaces, front-ends, endless processor and hardware variations and more from the world of Android, it should be absolutely no surprise that Apple was able to reclaim the Q4 2011 top spot.

Despite a fierce attack of Android clones, Apple’s iPhone 4S and earlier models have propelled the crunchy kingdom to the top of the smartphone pile in Q4 2011, but it’s a neck-and-neck race for supremacy between Apple and its major co-opetitor, Samsung.

The health of the PC market appears to depend on whether or not you include tablets in the definition. Some analysts do, others don't.

I see the IDC stats on the superlative smartphone market, where over a million handsets per month were sold last year, portending even greater to come in 2011!

Website uptime monitoring firm Pingdom has been looking at visitor stats to find out where Macs are most popular. Australia is one of the top ten nations on this measure.

The newest version of Microsoft’s struggling Internet Explorer has been described as a “non-event”, due to the lack of compatibility with Windows XP.

Analyst firm Telsyte has some predictions for the Australian market, predicting that smartphones powered by Google’s Android OS will grow “threefold in 2011” at WinMo 6.5 and Nokia’s expense, with Apple still set maintain market leadership this year.

Whether or not Android has pushed the iPhone into third place in the US market depends on whose figures you believe. But BlackBerry is still out in front, and the anticipated launch of iPhone on Verizon may put the cat among the pigeons.

Nearly a quarter of a billion Windows 7 licenses have sold over the last twelve months since the OS became officially available, or more than 7.6 copies sold every single second.