February 19, 2009
Aussie telco boss loses top-secret Windows cellphone
Sol Trujillo, controversial head of Australian telephone provider, Telstra, has had his pocket picked. Worse still a mobile phone, probably the same as that illustrated, loaded with top-secret software was nicked at the same time. Blorge reports.
The new-generation software was on a phone given to Mr Trujillo in Barcelona, Spain this week at the World Mobile Congress.
Details are as yet a little scarce but the reports in the press suggest phone is thought to to be either an HTC Touch Pro2 or the HTC Touch Diamond2, which operates on the new Windows Mobile 6.5 software.
A Telstra spokesman yesterday confirmed the phone was given to Mr Trujillo, but said it was in the possession of a senior Telstra executive at the time of the theft.
Steve Ballmer, head of Microsoft, only unveiled the software this week which is burn before reading material. Journalists were not even allowed to touch the phone.
The phone — not the stolen one but an exact copy — will be on sale in the US by June, with the new software following by the end of the year. The advertising could be spectacular — At last, the mobile worth stealing.
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