PC World, FPT Online enter into strategic cooperation deal

PC World Vietnam and FPT Online Services Company on Tuesday signed a strategic cooperation deal with a view to generate and diversify premium products and services, the VnExpress reported. Accordingly, PC World VN will be responsible for maintaining and developing traditional printing products and online news website, focusing resources in journalism and content production. In [...]

Illegal software users on edge

Companies that export products in certain American states must legalise their software assets or face lost business opportunities. The message was delivered at a seminar in Hanoi, November 4, 2011 hosted by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), legal consulting firm Baker and McKenzie and the Open Computing Alliance (OCA). The State of [...]

HCM City revokes $1.2b Thu Thiem Software Park project

HCM City People’s Committee on late November 7 issued a decision to revoke investment license of TA Associates Vietnam Ltd Co. for Thu Thiem Software Park project due to too slow progress. Being kicked off construction since 2008, but so far, the land lot of Thu Thiem Software Park project has been still covered all [...]

PPP answer to stalled IT projects

Industry insiders are weighing over promoting public-private partnership investment in information technology field. A project on building a national database on population management was given to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in 2007 by the government. However, four years later the project is still on the drawing board. Another MPS project promoting electronic identity [...]

SAP affirms further investment in Vietnamese IT market

SAP Asia Vietnam has announced it will establish a new office in HCM City and a SAP Research Centre Vietnam. Director General of SAP Asia Vietnam, Srinivas Adimulam, emphasized that Vietnam is one of the most dynamic markets in South East Asia. The opening of the new office will boost SAP’s development strategies in the [...]

HCM City to establish second high-tech park in district 9

HCM City People’s Committee has recently approved a proposal to set up the city’s second high-tech park in district 9 with the name HCM City Technology and Science Park. In 2002, the prime minister had allowed to set up the first high-tech park in HCM City on an area of 913 hectares in district 9 [...]

Businesses turn to cloud computing

Businesses and consumers are increasingly relying on cloud computing services, and information technology research and advisory firm Gartner predicts that, by next year, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will be using some cloud computing services, with 20 percent of all businesses not owning any IT assets. Microsoft Asia-Pacific chief marketing officer Andrew Pickup estimated [...]

Japan wins satellite order from Vietnam

The Vietnamese government has decided to award contracts for its observation satellite project to Japanese companies, the Nikkei business daily said. NEC Corp. is expected to build the first orbiter to be launched in 2017, and oversee the production of the second one planned for 2020, the Nikkei said. The Japanese companies will be responsible [...]

Intel: Vietnam’s demand for cloud computing on the rise

Vietnam is a promising market, particularly in information technology and communications and its demand for cloud computing is increasing fast, said Intel Vietnam General Director Mai Sean Cang. At a seminar on Intel’s vision on cloud computing and effective data centre in Hanoi on Oct. 27, Mai Sean Cang said this is a good opportunity [...]

Foodtex to boost processing technology

Progress has been made in recent years to improve food hygiene and safety in the country, but more needs to be done to reduce the number of food poisoning cases, experts have said. “Although initial results have been positive, the country should do more to improve safety and hygiene standards since the number of food [...]

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