The Ministry of Industry and Trade forecasts cell phone and component exports may exceed US$20 billion this year, setting a new record for export turnover of an industry. Cell phones and components have just been in the list of Vietnam’s export items in recent years, but this commodity group has now generated the largest turnover. The export turnover of cell phones and components has been relatively... 

Vietnam is becoming a destination for cybercrimes while authorities and enterprises are lacking regulations on information security, with only 41% of them having internal regulations on this matter last year. According to the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT), the highest rate of information security regulations belonged to ministries and equivalent agencies with 57.9%. Meanwhile,... 

Now is not the right time for Vietnam to shift to 4G services while 3G technology has only been commercialized at home over the last three years, said the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC). MIC made the statement after several technology firms recently called for Vietnam to switch to 4G services as local consumers are unsatisfied with the slow data transmission speed of the current... 

Each 1% increase in the number of copyrighted software will generate an extra US$50 million for Vietnam, says a research project conducted by the Software Alliance (BSA) in collaboration with the U.S.-based business school INSEAD. The research, whose results were published on Tuesday, is to prove that the extensive use of copyrighted software is meaningful to the economy of a nation. It is based on... 

The military-run mobile service operator Viettel has reportedly been licensed to provide cable television services and plans to start the business in the last quarter of this year, a source told the Daily. Viettel will be allowed provide digital and analog cable TV services nationwide, except in major cities including Hanoi, HCMC, Haiphong, Danang, Can Tho, Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong and Daklak where it is... 

Mobile phones and components have surpassed textile-garment to top the list of export items generating the largest turnovers. In the first four months of the year, mobile phones and components recorded an export turnover of US$5.8 billion, an impressive growth of 92.3% year-on-year. Textile-garment exports maintained a stable growth of some 20%, but they just brought in US$5.1 billion and thus ended... 

The optical remote sensing satellite VNREDSat-1 is set for launch at 9:06 a.m. local time this Saturday. It will be the first remote sensing satellite of Vietnam to be put into orbit, marking a milestone for the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and turning the country’s history of space conquest into a new page. The VNREDSat-1 project costs a total of 55.8 million euros, or some... 

Local information technology (IT) companies are racing to launch new products to claim their shares in the cloud computing market. Cloud computing is a new Internet-based model for IT service distribution and use, with supply of resources often virtualized as an Internet service. Nguyen Van Hien, general director of iNet Solutions, said the time was now ripe for cloud-based services and solutions.... 

The information technology (IT) industry in HCMC is still facing a lot of difficulties in recruiting experts for development due to the current poor incentives at home, heard a meeting between the city’s leaders and related agencies on Thursday. There are 35 infrastructure development projects in Quang Trung Software City (QTSC), including 22 complete schemes, while more than ten other projects are... 

The 3G services market in Vietnam has continued growing strongly and even achieved the highest growth in Southeast Asia even though the technology has just been launched over the past three years at home, Qualcomm said. Thieu Phuong Nam, general director of Qualcomm in Indochina, said the growth of 3G services in Vietnam is growing strongly and has attracted 20 million subscribers after three years...