After years of focusing on the quantity of growth, the Quang Trung Software City has begun shifting its attention to the quality of growth and planning a Quang Trung Software City chain model. Like many other companies in the economy, the business performance last year of Quang Trung Software City Development Company, the operator of the Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) in HCMC, was not as good... 

Software piracy in Vietnam has significantly declined over the past years, heard a workshop on computer security held by Microsoft in HCMC on Tuesday. Although software copyright infringement remains serious in Vietnam, it is gradually lessening, said Vu Ngoc Hoan, acting director general of the Copyright Office of Vietnam. Last year, the rate of software piracy in Vietnam was 80%, down two percentage... 

The Ministry of Information and Communications this year will help about 11 companies apply the international quality management process CMMi (Capability Maturity Model Integration) in software production and digital content services. This was informed by Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, deputy director of the management board for industrial and information technology projects under the ministry, at a workshop... 

Software enterprises in the country have expressed concerns over a draft value added tax (VAT) law that, if passed, would slap a 10% VAT rate on software products instead of the current 0%. The Ministry of Finance now is sending out the draft of the VAT Law for feedbacks from local agencies. The ministry in the tentative draft plans to treat software as products subject to VAT at a tax rate of 10%,... 

If Vietnamese software outsourcers did not improve the quality of their human resources, they would likely lose orders from Japanese information technology (IT) firms despite the fact that Japanese enterprises are shifting their orders to Vietnam. As per the 2012 IT White Book of Japan compiled by the Japan Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA) based on a survey of 1,100 IT companies in Japan,... 

Software outsourcing activities in the rest of 2012 will continue to be stable, as a large number of companies have already won orders for the first quarter next year, according to local enterprises in the industry. Local enterprises have signed contracts for the whole year since the year’s beginning, thus ensuring their stable operation, said Tran Phuc Hong, deputy director of TMA Solutions, said. The... 

* Mobile application export grows strongly HCMC – Japanese information technology (IT) enterprises are shifting more software outsourcing contracts to Vietnam, especially after the Japan-China tension has heightened over territorial disputes. At the Japan Information and Communications Technology Day opened on Monday in HCMC, Vietnamese enterprises said that they saw more opportunities to win orders... 

Distributors of security software for personal users are struggling to obtain their growth targets for 2012, but they can’t afford to reduce prices to stimulate demand. Ngo Tran Vu, managing director of NTS Security, distributor of Kaspersky Lab software in Vietnam, said his company eyed 30% growth in the individual customer segment this year. Even though the growth rate has not been met, Vu said... 

Security software applicable to mobile equipments like smart-phones and tablet computers have yet to win the hearts of local customers even though such software products have been available in the country for over one year. At the moment, the mobile software market has seen the presence of more than ten local and foreign-invested security firms, including Kaspersky, Trend Micro, Symantec and Bitdefender,... 

Harvey Nash Vietnam has signed a cooperation agreement with FPT Software Joint Stock Company (Fsoft) to carry out information technology projects. Ton That Nam Tran from Harvey Nash Vietnam said that the firm and Fsoft would conduct projects in three fields, including mobility, cloud computing and big data for foreign markets from now until 2015. “Fsoft has plans to invest in the United Kingdom....