Mobile operator Movitel, a joint venture between Vietnamese company Viettel and Mozambique’s SPI, has given learning assistance software M-Escola to high schools in Mozambique.

 Vietnam’s technology group Bkav warned on August 8 that the malware that recently attacked the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is also hidden in the websites of government agencies, corporations, banks, research institutes and universities.

 The recent hacking accident at national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines rang the alarm for the local banking system, as many of its members have been keeping expenditure to modernise their Core Banking system to a minimum.

 The long awaited Pokemon Go is officially launched in Vietnam on August 6.

 The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT), under the information and communications ministry, on August 4, issued a warning about three domains containing malicious codes.

The servers for Pokemon Go in Vietnam are being installed. Perhaps in a few days, according to MMOserverstatus.com, Vietnamese gamers will be able to officially play the game, which has become wildly popular worldwide.

 All cyber attacks and hacking should be condemned and punished strictly, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh at the ministry’s regular press conference on August 4.

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT) on Thursday launched a satellite mobile service known as VinaPhone-S.

VietNamNet Bridge – The AAG submarine cable system connecting South East Asia and the United States broke on August 2, seriously affecting Internet connection in Vietnam. 

 FPT Corporation has been selected as the main investor of Myanmars national financial switching system.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nokia will return to the global market, including Vietnam later this year with two new phone models, according to distributor FPT Trading.

 Physicists from 13 countries worldwide gathered at a seminar on physics which kicked off in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 1.

 In-app advertising has been overtaking the mobile web channel in Vietnam, with the click-through rate on apps found to be 1.5 times as high as the mobile web click-through rate.

Hundreds of siki white-cheeked gibbons have been found in the Dong Chau- Khe Nuoc Trong forest in the central province of Quang Binh. This is the largest number of this species recorded in the jungles in central Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Oppo and Samsung are dominating the cheap smartphone segment (priced less than VND4 million or $180), which previously belonged to Nokia and other big names.

In spite of being taken over by the domestic investor after the withdrawal of its foreign investors, the fate of $278-million Da Nang Information Technology Park (IT park) remains uncertain.

 The Ministry of Defence's Command of Border Guard officially launched its one-stop portal to link with the Viet Nam National Single Window (VNSW) on Thursday.

 With people spending more time online, the internet and connected devices can be a cause of family tension, a new research from Kaspersky Lab and iconKids &Youth has found.

Graduating from Jean-Jacques Rousseau School in Sai Gon, the then 18-year-old Trinh Xuan Thuan decided to pursue the study of natural science despite his aptitude for literature.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications has proposed to invest VND8,000 billion ($363 million) into a target program on information technology in 2016-2020.