Samsung Electronics has announced three new smartphones that uses its Bada 2.0 operating system. The three phones are the Wave 3, Wave M, and Wave Y. The Wave 3 has a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen, 1.4GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera, and auto-focus.

Hewlett-Packard Company (Public, NYSE:HPQ) has indicated that they prefer to spin off their PC division and they are currently looking into what the implications will be by doing so. HP shocked their investors when they announced that they are considering alternatives for their Personal Systems Group, which includes their PC hardware division. They also plan to kill of their new tablet computer.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced a new user interface for Windows Explorer built in to Windows 8. Windows Explorer will use the Microsoft ribbon features. There will be over 200 commands in Explorer although Microsoft found that the top 10 commands represent 81.8% of all usage.

“We evaluated several different UI command affordances including expanded versions of the Vista/Windows 7 command bar,” stated Microsoft program manager Alex Simons. “The ribbon approach offered benefits in line with our goals.”

“These strengths fit well with our three goals – the ribbon would allow us to create an optimized file manager where commands would have reliable, logical locations in a streamlined experience,” says Simons. Microsoft’s new Windows 8 ribbon interface includes a home tab that hones in on the main file management tasks, these include Copy, Paste, Delete, Rename, Cut, and Properties. These commands make up 84% of what users in Windows Explorer do.”

The Share Tab allows people to quickly share files and folders by zipping, printing, e-mailing and faxing data. The View tab allows you to view files in the preview, details, and navigation pane. You can quickly group columns, add columns, show file extensions, hide files and show hidden files. The Explorer also has a search tab for filtering searches. All 200 commands in the ribbon now has keyboard shortcuts that can be customized.

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has released a beta version of iTunes Match. iTunes Match allows you to store your entire music collection on iCloud so you can stream it on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Mac computers.

Hewlett-Packard Company (Public, NYSE:HPQ) has made a barrage of terrible decisions in the last year. The Wall Street Journal did a great job summarizing it in one article. I’ll summarize it by bullet points.

There has been an ongoing rumor that the new upcoming iPhone is expected to have a 4.2-inch panel screen. Now there is a new report by DigiTimes that reports the panel size will be less than 4 inches.

The Crisis Response team at Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has created a Google Map to allow people to track Hurricane Irene which is traveling up the east coast. Other resources that you should consider are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Hurricane Center, and the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).

Bloomberg has released an interview with Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff. Benioff shared an anecdote of how Apple chairman Steve Jobs gave him advice about Enterprise Software.