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We’re back in August 2004 to tell you about the tech news of the past year.
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Virus, Spam, the new threats
- Vincent MyDoom, the new record virus.
- Windows XP SP2: Focus on security.
- LEN on the back: the digital economy becomes a political subject.
- Online casino betting.
ADSL 2 Mbit/s: everything on IP
- More and more ADSL packages, more or less unlimited.
- Unbundled shooting: France Telecom in danger?
- First tests of voice and TV over IP, for 1 Mbit/s you have nothing left.
- The best and worst ISP customer service in 2004.
- Palm d’Or and Windows seriously: wind in the sails for PDAs.
- GPS, micro hard drives, a real PC in your pocket.
Born under DivX
- Too many DVDs kill the DVD. Sometimes literally.
- Chirac protests against piracy but Michael Moore doesn’t have any.
- TV in phones, to watch the Olympics in the toilets on the subway.
- TNT? Yes! But which one?
More and more bits
- EFI, DDR2, Wifi g, PCI Express, double-layer DVDs, UMTS: big tech year.
- The Pentium 4s are hot as embers, can’t wait for 32 nm… for 2009.
- G5, Athlon: 64 bits, why?
Video games
- Geforce 6 Series and ATI Radeon 9000: Connected but no longer wired.
- Massively MMO: Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest II, Lineage II, Middle Earth Online and Ryzom… one day, no doubt.
- Since it’s Blizzard: World of Warcraft, it’s crack.
- A huge E3!
- On XBox: Halo twice as good?
- Sur PC : FEAR, Doom III, Stalker, Rome Total War.
- At Nintendo: Zelda (very) small and large, Metroid Prime 2, Resident Evil 4.
- At Sony: MSG3, FF XII and Gran Turismo 4.
- PSPower! Sony launches into the portable console!
- Nintendo returns to the Game and Watch format with the DS.
- And… Nokia persists, with its N-Gage QD.
Participants
- A program prepared by Guillaume Poggiaspalla
- Presented by Guillaume Vendé
References
- The Personal Computer 159,162,163
- Canard PC 33
- PC Expert 140
- To your Mac 42.
- PDA Practice 06.
- Generation 4 179
- Joypad 143
- Joystick 161
- Find them on Abandonware Magazine !
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