Dan
02-20-2009, 11:03 AM
Some of you mightn't have seen this yet as it involves the head of Australia's largest telco, Telstra, namely Sol Trujillo.
Some background on Sol: Americans might remember him as the bloke who stuffed Qwest and walked away with a $70 million handshake. Well he's stuffed our telco too. To put his lame efforts into perspective, in his first 10 weeks of operation he managed to wipe $10 billion of value off the company. It used to be worth $70 billion, it's worth far less than that these days, and he can't blame the global crisis for that one, he started well before all that stuff went down.
source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/pickpocket-swipes-secret-telstra-phone/2009/02/19/1234632937082.html
In a nutshell, one of the Telstra executives (the company is claiming it wasn't Sol) was given an HTC phone running the new Windows 6.5 Mobile OS on it. The story goes that the phone was pick-pocketed (stolen) out of the executives jacket, and so now someone has the phone that shouldn't and with it access to all of Microsofts secret information regarding the OS.
For mine, the story is just a little *too* convenient. Who'd steal a mobile phone? Better yet who would target an executive who just happened to be carrying a you-better-not-lose-this-or-steve-ballmer-will-f*****g-kill-you phone?
Telstra, and its executives, have a reputation for sleazy underhanded dealings. I think it is far more plausible that the phone was given to someone or reported stolen, just to see the reaction from Microsoft regarding the technology. If Microsoft has told the executives "don't lose this phone or else" then the Telstra executive, might just have wanted to see what the or else actually entailed. How mighty is Microsoft really???
Anyways, I'll leave you to your own opinions, and I'll shelve my conspiracy theory for now ;)
Some background on Sol: Americans might remember him as the bloke who stuffed Qwest and walked away with a $70 million handshake. Well he's stuffed our telco too. To put his lame efforts into perspective, in his first 10 weeks of operation he managed to wipe $10 billion of value off the company. It used to be worth $70 billion, it's worth far less than that these days, and he can't blame the global crisis for that one, he started well before all that stuff went down.
source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/pickpocket-swipes-secret-telstra-phone/2009/02/19/1234632937082.html
In a nutshell, one of the Telstra executives (the company is claiming it wasn't Sol) was given an HTC phone running the new Windows 6.5 Mobile OS on it. The story goes that the phone was pick-pocketed (stolen) out of the executives jacket, and so now someone has the phone that shouldn't and with it access to all of Microsofts secret information regarding the OS.
For mine, the story is just a little *too* convenient. Who'd steal a mobile phone? Better yet who would target an executive who just happened to be carrying a you-better-not-lose-this-or-steve-ballmer-will-f*****g-kill-you phone?
Telstra, and its executives, have a reputation for sleazy underhanded dealings. I think it is far more plausible that the phone was given to someone or reported stolen, just to see the reaction from Microsoft regarding the technology. If Microsoft has told the executives "don't lose this phone or else" then the Telstra executive, might just have wanted to see what the or else actually entailed. How mighty is Microsoft really???
Anyways, I'll leave you to your own opinions, and I'll shelve my conspiracy theory for now ;)