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Around 57 percent of government officials at all levels have been provided with email addresses for work but 19 percent of them have never used their emails, said a senior official of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC). Speaking at a national seminar on e-government in HCM City last week, the MoIC’s Information Technology [...]
The Vietnamese internet security firm BKIS has been accused by the Korea Internet Security Center (KrCERT) of breaching Vietnamese and international rules during its investigation of attacks on US and Korean servers. A BKIS team was the first to trace the attacks to master servers in the UK. BKIS denies it has broken any rules. [...]
With 73.2 million mobile phone subscribers by March 2009, Vietnam holds sixth position for the number of mobile phone users in Asia. China and India secure the first and the second positions, with 644.8 and 391.6 million subscribers. The two countries account for 1.04 billion subscribers of the world’s total number of 4.15 billion. The [...]
Six software solutions received the “Best IT Solutions” Cup and 33 information and communications technology services and products won “Best ICT Products” awards given away by PC World Viet Nam magazine at a ceremony on Wednesday. While the awards reaffirmed users’ confidence in Vietnamese software solutions, there was an increase in the number of votes [...]
Vietnamese version of Facebook . he social networking site Facebook, which has over 300,000 Vietnamese subscribers, recently released a Vietnamese version, with all the preparation for the version done by Vietnamese volunteers. All the volunteers came to the work with a passion to create a virtual space for Vietnamese to relax after work, especially when the [...]
After Mekostem, which opened in February 2009, the second stem-cell bank named Mamprotech Vietnam is scheduled to open in late 2009 in HCM City. Stem-cell research at a laboratory. Invested in by Mamprotech Vietnam, a private company, the stem-cell bank is located in the HCM City Hi-tech Park. The project’s manager Nguyen Quang Duc told VietNamNet [...]
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said it would draft a decree to regulate operational requirements and procedures for firms providing IT services. Viet Nam currently has about 10,000 firms licensed to provide IT services; however, only about a third are operating. There is currently a lack of guidelines for implementing existing IT laws; [...]
The 14th Vietnam Information and Communication Technologies Outlook (VIO) will be held in Ho Chi Minh City from July 15-19. According to the organising board, comprising the HCM City IT Association, the International Data Group (IDG) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), this year’s seminar will provide a more specific foundation for [...]
Viet Nam had 101.7 million telephone subscribers by the first half of this year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. Viet Nam has six mobile phone service providers: Vinafone, Mobifone, Viettel, S-Fone, EVN Telecom and Vietnamobile. Next month, the domestic market will welcome Beeline. The total included 82 million mobile phones and 19.7 [...]
Afflicted by the charge-slashing campaigns of the three “giants”, MobiFone, Viettel and VinaPhone, small mobile networks are now being forced to look at their business modes and shortcomings. The charge-slashing campaigns in early June of Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone pushed smaller mobile networks against the wall. Vietnamobile had to “join” this trend after a short [...]