Microsoft’s secret “iPhone Killer” mobile phone design stolen
If you’ve ever had your mobile stolen, software giant Microsoft may now be able to empathise with you. Its prototype mobile phone dubbed the “iPhone killer” has been stolen from the pocket of a top executive hours after the handset’s launch was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Microsoft bosses now fear that hackers could dissect the highly confidential Windows Mobile 6.5 software and leak the information on the internet. There is also talk that this was a deliberate act of industrial espionage.
The phone prototype was given by Microsoft to the chief executive of communications firm Telstra. He is then understood to have passed it on to an executive within the company, before it disappeared.
