A Vietnam-Japan information and communications technology (ICT) day was held in Hanoi on October 26, attracting representatives of hundreds of IT businesses from both countries.  

 Vietnam’s top 50 IT companies generated a total revenue of nearly VND28 trillion (US$1.25 billion) last year, according to Nguyen Thi Thu Giang, General Secretary of the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association.

 CMC Telecom is the only Vietnamese information, communication and technology (ICT) firm voted among the top 25 most promising telecom solution providers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) market.

Vietnam saw a big spike in malware and spyware targeting smartphones and other mobile devices in the third quarter of this year, according to data of Vietnamese tech outfit Bkav.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union in collaboration with the Quang Trung Software Park yesterday held the seventh Young Creative Program under theme of ‘Building a smart city’ at HCMC Youth Culture House. 

 Around 76 per cent of Vietnamese internet protocol (IP) cameras are susceptible to illegal access because users keep the fixed accounts of the makers rather than changing them, a report by the Bach Khoa Technology Group (BKAV) revealed on Thursday.

 After 14 years of establishment, Saigon Hi-Tech Park in HCMC has granted 102 investment certificates with the total capital of over US$5.57 billion, reported the park’s management at a ceremony yesterday.

 The University of Economics and Businessof VN National University in co-ordination with the Japan society for Information and Management (JSIM) yesterday held the 2016 Asia Pacific Conference on Information Management in Hanoi

  Domestic software developers are expecting that North America will become the second market for Vietnamese outsourcing companies, after Japan.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) have licensed four operators, namely Viettel, VNPT, MobiFone, and Gmobile, to provide 4G on the 1800 MHz bandwidth.

  Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan on Tuesday signed a licence allowing Gtel Mobile Joint Stock Company (Gtel Mobile) to provide 4G telecommunications service in Viet Nam.

 Viettel plans to earn $1.5 billion in revenue in its nine international markets this year.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has granted three giant mobile network suppliers licences to set up public telecommunication and provide 4G service on broadband 1,800 MHz.

 Consumer electronics retailer The Gioi Di Dong recently opened a batch of sealed boxes of iPhone 6s Plus to find that the boxes contain rocks instead of phones.

 The Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) is actively supervising the recall and exchange programme of all Galaxy Note 7 models from Samsung Electro-Mechanics Viet Nam Co Ltd (SEMV).

 A series of made-in-Viet Nam mini satellites will be launched into orbit in the coming time as part of Viet Nam’s effort to take command of earth supervision, said a senior official.

As of August 2016, Unitel, a joint venture of Viettel Global Joint Stock Company and Lao Asia Telecom from Laos, reached $1 billion and $300 million in cumulative revenue and profit, respectively, since starting operation in September 2009.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two schoolgirls from the northern province of Ninh Binh have presented their idea of making a machine to collect and deal with storms underground.

  Online financial threats are on the rise globally and starting to penetrate the Asia-Pacific region, including Viet Nam, according to IT security experts.

 The production suspension and recall of Galaxy Note7, a smartphone previously hoped to be a Samsung flagship product this year, will not have much impact on Samsung Vietnam’s export revenue in 2016, the firm said.