Hewlett-Packard Vietnam (HP), in coordination with Future Vision Co., last Saturday opened the first HP Premium store in Vietnam. The store, on the third floor of Crescent Mall in HCMC’s District 7, displays HP products including laptops, desktop computers, printers and accessories such as mouse, keyboard and USB. Customers can also use and test HP products in-house. Customers buying HP laptops... 

US computer giant Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that its rival to Apple’s hot-selling iPad, the HP TouchPad, will go on sale in the United States on July 1. The touchscreen tablet computer, which is powered by the webOS software platform bought from Palm, will be available in Britain, France, Ireland and Germany a few days later and in Canada in mid-July, HP said in a statement. The... 

Asia shares rose from a six-week low Wednesday, led by consumer stocks, but disappointing U.S. data have made some investors reluctant to follow commodity prices higher, containing a bounce in risky assets from currencies to oil. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei average (.N225) was up 1.1 per cent and MSCI’s index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.8 per cent. Korea stocks (.KS11) rose... 

Many foreign investors in hi-tech industries, especially multinational companies, are continuing to pour money into Vietnam even though the world’s economy has yet to completely recover from the global financial crisis. Here are some of the big movers and shakers who have invested in the country. Hi-tech investors tap Vietnam Wintek Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of touch screens for Apple... 

Big names in the technology world have flocked to Vietnam which has opened the door for the country’s technology sector to strive toward the international hi-tech league The American energy group First Solar has started phase 1 construction of a solar panel factory worth US$300 million of the total investment capital of over US$1 billion in Cu Chi District, HCM City. The research and development... 

HCMC – Technology giant HP will open a software research and development center at Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) next week. Chu Tien Dung, chairman of Quang Trung Software City Development Company, said at a press conference on Wednesday on QTSC’s 10th anniversary celebration ceremony slated for March 16 that HP had completed the investment procedure and QTSC had also finished technology infrastructure... 

Business Monitor International (BMI) forecasts that the Vietnamese information technology (IT) market is to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12 per cent over the 2011-2015 period. In the freshly-issued “Vietnam Information Technology Report Q1 2011″, the BMI, a leading, independent provider of proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts, projected that the... 

Vietnam’s information technology and hi-tech sectors will become a hub for domestic and foreign investors in 2011. A list of projects to be executed in Vietnam in 2011 includes Taiwan’s Wintek Corporation’s touch screen production plant in northern Bac Giang province, Hewlett Packard opening a software testing company and other projects in Hoa Lac and Saigon Hi-Tech parks. Wintek Corporation... 

US stocks fell Tuesday as traders fretted over a spike in tensions in the Korean peninsula and turmoil in Ireland after its bailout plan. “Geopolitics have thrown the market for a loop this morning, courtesy of a provocative action by North Korea,” said Patrick O’Hare of Briefing.com. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 43.37 points (0.39 per cent) to 11,35.21 in opening... 

A dearth of quality labour is concerning foreign software companies. According to Ministry of Information and Communications, the domestic information technology sector will need around 528,000 workers by 2020 with 148,000 people in software outsourcing. However, current training facilities can only provide around 400,000 IT workers. An executive at Hewlett-Packard Vietnam said the firm would set up...