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Telstra boss has phone with top-secret software stolen

Posted by Michael Sawh on Wed 18 Feb 2009

Pickpocket could land the handset in dangerous hands

You'd think with a handset haven like Mobile World Congress, most manufacturers would guard their prized phone possessions with titanium cases hooked up to all variety of loud screeching alarms. Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo fell foul to the Artful Dodger hand trickery and had his mobile nabbed with the loaded software proving the most worrying part of the criminal act.

 

Likely to have been either the HTC Touch Pro2 or the HTC Diamond2, the two new handsets which will run on the new Windows Mobile 6.5 software could well be the software in question that has gone walkabouts.

 

In the ideal way to lay blame somwehere else, it is reported that Trujilo gave the phone to a Telstra senior executive, when the handy thief struck.

 

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Windows Mobile 6.5, which was unveiled this week at Mobile World Congress, is Microsoft's latest stab at the OS market, and despite the two new HTC phones landing on shelves in June, Windows Mobile 6.5 is not expected to be available to the public until the end of the year.

 

What's that we can hear? It's the grinding teeth of a certain Mr Ballmer as he contemplates the damage this could well have back at Microsoft HQ.

 

Link: Microsoft (Via News.com)

  

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