Five digital inventions have been selected to the final round of the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2018 in Information and Technology.

 Le Thai Son, 31, from the northern province of Vinh Phuc, has been included on this year’s list of Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review for managing to increase optical fibre transmission by 50 per cent.

 Local and international experts shared research results on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology at the annual international conference of the Saigon Hi-Tech Park on November 16.

 The highlight of Vietnam Web Summit 2018, the largest annual web and internet festival in Vietnam, is expected to be the presentations by experts on the application of new technologie.

 Open-sourced data is increasingly considered a flexible resource which greatly benefits businesses, consumers, as well as the national economy in general. 

 Vietnam will pilot a fifth-generation (5G) network next year and officially provide the service in 2020, said Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung.

 SIM card vendors are amassing as many promotional SIM card numbers from small-scale telecom carriers as they can, expecting to sell them at higher prices after the mobile number portability (MNP) service takes effect today.

 As a large chunk of Mobile World’s database of clients’ bank card information have been hacked and posted on the internet, the corporation and customers are now worried about potential losses from these cards.

Only three days remain until the beginning of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service, which allows local subscribers to switch to other mobile operators and retain their original phone number. 

 Vietnamese telecommunications giants VinaPhone, Viettel and MobiFone will deploy mobile number portability (MNP) services starting this Friday (November 16).

 The Ministry of Information and Communications on Monday transferred the ownership of giant telecom service providers VNPT and MobiFone to the Committee for State Capital Management.

 Mobile subscribers of the country’s major mobile service providers can use a mobile number portability (MNP) service, which allows them to retain their phone numbers when switching carriers, from November 16.

 Four Vietnamese agencies were honoured with the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) awards during a ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan on November 8. 

The HCMC Department of Information and Communications yesterday announced the launch of the annual ‘Vietnam Information Security Day 2018’ with the theme ‘Cyber Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Devices’.

 Vietnam is likely to become Southeast Asia’s fintech (financial technology) hub, according to an article posted on theaseampost.com.

One of the key provisions of the decree providing guidance for the implementation of the Law on Cybersecurity requires foreign firms including companies like Google and Facebook to localise data and set up local offices in Vietnam.

 A ceremony will be held on November 24 in Cao Bang city to receive a certificate from UNESCO recognising Non Nuoc Cao Bang Geopark the northern border province of Cao Bang as a global geopark by the UNESCO.

 For better cyberspace, the Vietnamese prime minister has asked competent agencies to build a code of conducts on the Internet for both telecommunications service providers and social network users.

 Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has draft a decree guiding the enforcement of Law on Cyberspace which provides that foreign firms have to store Vietnamese social medial user database in the country.

 Acquiring the mobile retail chain Vien Thong A is expected to help Vingroup distribute its Vsmart smartphone products.