Vietnam’s revenue from information and technology in 2016 reached nearly US$68 billion, posting an 11.49 percent year-on-year increase.

 The difficulties involved in developing smart cities and possible solutions were on the agenda of a conference on “General Solutions for Smart City” (Smart City 360 Degrees) held in HCM City on Tuesday.

 The White Book on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) 2017 of Vietnam was released by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) in Hanoi on September 19.

 With the Government releasing the policy to develop the solar energy industry, it is poised for a boom, a workshop heard in HCM City on September 18.

An international Hardware and Hand Tools exhibition in Vietnam in 2017 is scheduled to take place from December 6-9 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam determines to transform from a consumer to a provider of future technologies and services, ready to stay at the front door of the fourth industrial revolution, according to Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Dai Duong.

 The Vietnam National Space Centre under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency signed an agreement on satellite data exchange in Hanoi on September 18.

The Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information (ABEI) under the Ministry of Information and Communications on September 14 announced a list of 83 websites that have been found to infringe copyright rules.

 FPT Corporation, Vietnam’s leading information technology firm, has launched Speakdi, a Vietnamese-Japanese automatic translation app, on App Store since early this month.

 The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has called on agencies and enterprises across the country to take measures to cope with a possible advanced persistent threat (APT) that is looming large.

 Nearly 40 Vietnamese and South Korean information and technology companies took part in the  2017 Viet Nam - South Korea ICT Partnership Program.

 Vietnamobile Telecom Joint Stock Company has been investing in infrastructure and networks for a year and is now able to serve 90 per cent of the population with 3G speed.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially set up a legal entity in Viet Nam to support its customers using the company’s products, an AWS representative said at a conference last week. 

 The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) organised the 2017 ASEAN Computer Emergency Response Team Incident Drill (ACID) in Hanoi on September 11.

 The Adsota Joint Stock Company has appeared on Facebook’s Agency Directories as a Gaming Agency since late August.

 Artificial-intelligence technology surrounds our everyday lives, in the form of voice assistants like Apples’ Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana or Amazon’s Alexa, say the computer experts.

 Two students from HCM City have successfully developed a product called talking gloves to support the communications of deaf and mute people.

 Google Vietnam held the first ever “Mobile Hackathon Vietnam” on September 6 and 7, a training event for more than 25 local businesses in a range of sectors, from e-commerce and travel to publications.

Local employees in the information technology (IT) sector will earn much higher salaries if they have a good command of foreign languages, according to survey results of job recruitment websites VietnamWorks and TopITworks. 

 The draft cyber information security law will be submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee this month, the Ministry of Public Security said on its website.