Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric — Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag.
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player — Moments ago Amazon announced that it has made a number of enhancements to its Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services. First — for a limited time — anyone who signs up will get unlimited space for music.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Numbers: How Goldman Sachs values each Microsoft division — The whole of Microsoft is currently less than the sum of its parts. That was one of the underlying assertions in Goldman Sachs’ latest report on the Redmond company, which included a case for spinning off Microsoft’s video-game business …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Gates: Microsoft still likes tablets; pen-based computing isn’t dead — Say this for Bill Gates: He stands behind his favorite trends, even when they haven’t turned out to be much in the way of trends. — Appearing with Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway lieutenant Charlie Munger …