Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
You have
a new beta version of Windows Mobile running on a new HTC Touch
handset, who do you entrust the phone to for testing purposes?
Obviously not Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and his offsiders at the World
Mobile Congress in Barcelona because their pockets are too easy to pick.
According to a report in the Melbourne Herald Sun,
Microsoft could now be faced with the prospect of having its latest
mobile operating system trade secrets bandied around the world for the
highest bidder and Telstra is as red faced as a ripe tomato over the
incident.
Microsoft gave the phone to Mr Trujillo himself for
testing and he apparently passed it over to one of his senior
executives who was pick-pocketed at the Barcelona show which is
renowned for its hordes of low-life thieves looking for "five-fingered
discounts".
The phone and the software are so new that
journalists have not even been allowed to glimpse the workings of the
OS or the phone itself except from afar.
The phone is thought to
be an HTC Touch that will be released in the US this coming June.
However, it's the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system on it that
has the news media buzzing.
Nobody knows for sure that the stolen phone actually has Windows Mobile 6.5 on it. A report in The Register
suggests that it may simply be the latest shell that Telstra has for
Windows Mobile 6.1.
Whatever the case, Microsoft and other major mobile phone software
vendors may well think twice in future before casually entrusting trade
secrets to jet setting Telstra executives.
David Bass
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