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2004 by the months
JANUARY
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) files lawsuits against
532 individuals in New York and Washington for copyright infringements in
a move to intensify its battle against illegal music downloaders and song
swappers.
Scientists manage to stop and freeze light in an experiment that could help
the development of futuristic super-powerful computers.
World Wide Web (WWW) inventor Tim Berners-Lee receives his knighthood
for coming up with the WWW.
The MyDoom Internet worm clogs the Internet with more than 100 million
infected e-mail messages in its first 36 hours.
FEBRUARY
Large corporations in the mobile phones, microchip and media industry –
including Nokia, Intel and Warner Bros. – band together to license an
antipiracy technology developed by the Open Mobile Alliance, an
organisation of 350 mobile technology companies, for sending movies and
music files to cellular phones.
The Malaysian Government announces that it is finalising details for the
10,000-school SchoolNet broadband network project.
Part of the source code for Microsoft’s Windows NT and Windows 2000
operating systems leak onto the Internet, possibly exposing its products to
hackers and illicit copying.
A US federal court rules that 321 Studios must stop making its DVDXCOPY
software program that allows users to copy DVDs in what is seen as a big
victory for Hollywood movie studios in their ongoing battle against piracy.
MARCH
The PC Gemilang project, a collaborative effort between the Malaysian
Government and the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry
of Malaysia (Pikom) aimed at making affordable PCs for the Malaysian
public, officially kicks off with the launch of two desktops PCs.
European Union states unanimously throw their weight behind a landmark
ruling against Microsoft that would eventually slap a record fine of 497mil
euros on the software giant.
APRIL
Lindows Inc changes the name of its Lindows OS operating system to
Linspire, responding to a US federal judge’s refusal to halt Microsoft’s
trademark infringement lawsuits outside the United States.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee wins one million euros after being named the first
winner of the world’s largest technology award – the Millennium Technology
Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
The RIAA ends its amnesty programme that offered to drop the lawsuits
filed against illegal music downloaders if they admitted to sharing music
online illegally and then removed those files from their computers.
Sanjay Kumar resigns as chairman and chief executive of Computer
Associates International Inc, as the software company’s accounting scandal
finally reaches a climax. However, he stays on as the company’s chief
technology architect.
MAY
Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik
announces that the proposed merger of the country’s top two Internet
service providers (ISPs) TM Net and Jaring is off.
A unit of Sony Corp, Sony Connect, is launched. The online music store
provides consumers with more than 500,000 music tracks.
18-year-old German Sven Jaschan confesses to creating the Internet
Sasser worm which infected millions of computers worldwide.
JUNE
30-year-old Taiwanese computer engineer Wang Ping-an is arrested for
allegedly designing the trojan horse virus “Peep” and putting it on websites,
allowing hackers from China to use it to attack the island’s business and
government systems.
Howard Carmack, also known as the Buffalo Spammer, who sent 850
million junk e-mail messages through accounts he opened with stolen
identities is sentenced to seven years in prison after having been sued for
US$16.4mil (RM62.3mil).
Sony Corp announces that it is pulling its Clie personal digital assistants
(PDAs) out of international markets. The Clie would continue to be sold in
Japan.
Sanjay Kumar resigns as chief software architect of Computer Associates.
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) awards US$50,000
(RM190,000) to Josh Findley for discovering the largest prime number
identified so far. Digit on digit, the number would take six weeks to write
out by long hand and stretch for 25km.
Cabir, the first computer virus that can infect mobile phones, is discovered.
The virus, which experts say is harmless, infects the Symbian operating
system used in several makes of phones.
Bob Berner, a computer pioneer who publicised warnings of the Y2K
problem in the early 1970s and helped invent the widely used ASCII coding
system that is used in computers to represent text, dies after a battle with
cancer. He was 84.
JULY
Laurent Chavet, a former AltaVista employee working on Microsoft’s search
initiative is arrested on charges that he stole source code from the
AltaVista Search engine two years ago.
The Malaysian Government announces that all government technology
procurement would now have a preference for open source software,
under the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software Masterplan.
Harres Tan, CEO of HT Consulting (Asia) Sdn Bhd, is elected chairman of
Pikom.
The football that David Beckham blasted into the stands when he missed a
penalty in England’s Euro 2004 shootout defeat by Portugal attracts bids of
up to 10mil euros on Internet auction site eBay. It finally sells for £28,050
to Canadian-based Internet casino Golden Palace.com.
Lindows settles a trademark infringement case with Microsoft and sets
terms for a US$48mil (RM128mil) public offering.
AUGUST
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) voices its concerns over the
procurement policy in the Malaysian Government’s Public Sector Open
Source Software Masterplan, saying the policy outlines an “explicit
preference” for OSS.
The long-awaited sequel to id Software Inc’s wildly popular first-person
shooter, Doom 3, finally hits store shelves.
Russian antivirus specialist Kaspersky Labs detects
Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a, the first backdoor for personal digital assistants
(PDAs) running on the Pocket PC platform.
Local cellular carrier Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd suspends all its SMS (short
message service) contests pending a review of the contests’ propriety from
legal and religious standpoints.
Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker famed for developing DVD
encryption-cracking software, releases a software key to unlock the
encryption for Apple’s AirPort Express, a device that lets users broadcast
digital music from Apple’s online iTunes Music Store on a stereo that’s not
plugged into a computer.
Google Inc finally goes public, making its debut on Nasdaq.
SEPTEMBER
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi unveils the
2005 Budget which is seen as perhaps the least ICT-focused in years.
Sven Jaschan, the Sasser worm author, is charged with computer
sabotage.
A US federal judge clears the way for software giant Oracle Corp to press
ahead with its hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc.
About a dozen disgruntled Malaysian PC retailers decide to form their own
society, the ICT Science Association of Malaysia, after having
disagreements with Pikom.
Infineon Technologies agrees to plead guilty and pay a US$160mil
(RM608mil) fine to settle US federal charges that it participated in an
international conspiracy to fix prices of computer chips.
Mesiniaga Bhd founder and IBM Malaysia pioneer Ismail Sulaiman passes
away at the age of 78.
CA’s Sanjay is indicted on charges of participating in accounting fraud and
efforts to thwart a subsequent criminal probe.
OCTOBER
The disgruntled group of Pikom members striking out on their own receive
approval from the Registrar of Societies to set up the Information
Communication Technology Science Association of Malaysia (ICTS).
PeopleSoft Corp’s board sacks chief executive Craig Conway hours before
the US Justice Department said it would not block a takeover bid from
Oracle Corp.
Sony Corp’s music unit abandons its CDs that use built-in technology that
limits copying because, according to the company, its message against
illegally copying CDs has widely sunk in.
A US federal jury backs Eastman Kodak Co in a high-stakes
patent-infringement dispute with Sun Microsystems Inc over the company’s
popular Java programming language.
Google rolls out a preliminary version of its new desktop search tool which
lets users search for information buried in their computer hard drives.
Intel cancels plans to introduce its highest-speed desktop computer chip
and instead chooses to focus on a less quantitative goal of performance
encompassing multitasking, security and multimedia.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, which goes by its original
French initials, CERN, turns 50. The organisation is responsible, in part, for
the birth of the World Wide Web and has even shed light on the origins of
the universe.
NOVEMBER
Microsoft agrees to pay US$200mil (RM760mil) to settle class-action
lawsuits filed in several US states for overcharging customers for its
software.
ICT Science Association of Malaysia’s inaugural Computer Fair kicks off
with its organising committee officials confident that the cash-and-carry
event would fare well against its rival, the PC Fair series organised by the
Pikom.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), representing seven
major movie studios, files its first wave of lawsuits against individuals they
say are offering pirated copies of films using peer-to-peer file-sharing
programs.
Internet videogame JFK Reloaded, which lets players kill John F. Kennedy,
is condemned. Its release coincided with the 41st anniversary of the
former US President’s assassination.
DECEMBER
The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) is elected to chair the
Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe), an industry
group that focuses on e-commerce issues and policies.
eBay Inc officially launches its Malaysian version of the online auctioneer’s
website.
Jaring, Malaysia’s first Internet service provider, launches the first threat to
TM Net Sdn Bhd’s stranglehold on the nation’s broadband pipes by rolling
out its wireless broadband service.
Microsoft Malaysia pledges RM11mil to equip Malaysian university
graduates with faculty member training, research collaboration and grants,
curriculum modules, articles and white papers, as well as lectures by
technology experts in a bid to help them meet the challenges of what the
company calls the “innovation economy.”
Oracle announces it would acquire its main competitor, PeopleSoft, by
early January in a hotly-contested deal worth around US$10.3bil (RM39bil).
US security software giant Symantec announces a US$13.5bil (RM51.3bil)
all-stock deal to buy Veritas Software, prompting heavy selling by worried
investors. – Compiled by RAVIND RAMESH
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I will not forget how that Lindows crap hade to change It's name nor all the fines that Microsoft had to pay.
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