Imran Hussain’s posterous

Microsoft's Envisioning Lab. Looks awesome doesn't it? According to the Office Labs blog " A place for us to share our vision with our most strategic customers and have a dialogue around what resonates and what doesn’t...

The facility is part of the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center and will provide visitors with a hands-on experience of the technologies and ideas we are working towards."

More pictures and details soon. I'm curious.

ROFLMAO! The Onion is awesome! Epic funniness, must read for all. ( article contains NSFW language )

Awesome song. Touchy subject. A song for the soul.

Hell of a list of jobs. So no one wants to die for IT?

Awesome guy! Superb personality. Definitely a national hero. We need more like him.

Next-Generation Nintendo DS May Get Tilt Controls

Nintendo has seeded the DS2 development kit to a few selected companies, including the hardware itself. According to one developer, Nintendo said the DS2 was the first version and not final, but he is very impressed with the new controls:

It's genuinely the best thing I think I've ever worked with. I can tell you that it's got a 'tilt' function that's not dissimilar to iPhone, but does a lot more. We know that The Pokemon Company are getting special attention with it.

I wonder if this move was always on the cards or if it's just a reaction to Apple's huge success in the gaming arena, a success that has turned upside down both the idea of games distribution and some of the conceptions for mobile gaming previously set by Nintendo and Sony, especially when it comes to the importance of physical controls. Would the new DS2 include capacitive screens too? How could Nintendo one-up the sudden and serious threat that Apple now represents? We will have to wait a long time to discover the answers. Probably too much, probably way after the iPad and the next iPod/iPhone generation appear. [CVG]

Too little, too late.

Five people have filed a class action suit against social networking site Facebook in the US District Court for the Northern District of California concerning privacy changes implemented at the end of last year.

The lawsuit claims that the changes actually reduced, rather than increased, the privacy of Facebook users. That's contrary to what the company claimed.

Where a single click once took care of privacy, with only a user name and the networks a user belong to available on public search, now a great deal more is accessible, including photos and listing of friends, as well as geographic data.

"Misleading, confusion and disingenuous"

The lawsuit, which calls Facebook's messages about the changes "misleading, confusing and disingenuous," is seeking unspecified damages.

It asserts there are now at least 29 privacy settings spread over a number of Web pages, a procedure it calls "grossly ineffective and users are misled into allowing Facebook to having their personal information easily accessed for commercial use, exposing them to identity theft, harassment, embarrassment, intrusion and all types of cybercrime."

When Facebook first explained the changes last December, Electronic Frontier Foundation Kevin Bankston issued a warning about them: In a blog post he wrote: "Our conclusion? These new 'privacy' changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data."

Before the changes, somewhere between 15 and 20 per cent of Facebook users adjusted their privacy settings. There are no figures on how many attempt it these days.

Good for them. I hope these 5 people win against Facebook. These companies need to start respecting privacy!

Nice compilation. No doubt these are the highlights of Windows Phone 7 Series so far. Can't wait for MIX10!