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Hanoi Times – Van lake in Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam, Hanoi (the Temple of Literature) will be purified by a new technology of Vietnam this June, affirmed by Dr. Nguyen Van Lang,Vice Minister of Science and Technology cum Head of Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park’s Management Board .

Hanoi Times – Panasonic is going to market its three new models of multifunctional printers in Vietnam. Three new models are KX-MB772, KX-FLB882 and KX-MB262.

Hanoi Times – The national key laboratory “Materials and Electronics Components” was inaugurated by the Institute of Materials Science (Vietnamese Academic of Science and Technology) in Hanoi o­n June 17.

Hanoi Times – Training courses o­n BREW technology solutions is going to be opened for Vietnamese software engineers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, announced the Qualcomm and the Vietnam Association for Information Processing (VAIP).

NXP Semiconductors BV, a privately-held chipmaker, revealed that it is negotiating with some Vietnamese partners to manufacture low-cost mobile phones of less than $30.

The pan-Asia sea cable route with a data transmission speed of 3.84 Tbit/second will land in Vietnam tomorrow, June 14, to enhance the country’s connection to Asian countries and territories like Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, the Philippines, etc.

Over 30 international and Vietnamese telecom groups participated in an international telecom conference held by the Ministry of Information and Communications o­n June 12-13 in Hanoi to seek optimal solutions for developing broadband and wireless telecommunications in Vietnam.

A research institute of the Ministry of Construction has managed to produce diesel oil from waste rubber, helping to reduce environmental pollution caused by the elastic material.

NEC Solutions Vietnam Co merged with Sang Tao Corporation, the first between a Japanese company and a Vietnamese company in the IT sector.The Japanese-invested software firm said the merger would help the two firms better utilize labour forces, improve business efficiency, eliminate duplication of administrative expenses and curb the leakage of technologies. “As many as 50 percent of the new company’s operations will focus o­n overseas projects while the remaining 50 percent will focus o­n providing IT solutions and o­n networking,” said Masako Hirano, director of communications for NEC Asia, the parent firm of NEC Solutions Vietnam. The merger would also help NEC Solutions Vietnam get more access to development projects in Vietnam and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries, she said. Through this merger, the new company now has approximately 150 employees. The number of employees is expected to grow to 300 in the fiscal year starting April 2010 with a sales target of 11.3 million USD. While NEC Solutions Vietnam was established in April 2006 by NEC Soft and NEC Asia, HCM City-based software and web developer Sang Tao Corporation was established in 1998 and last year earned a revenue of 719,000 USD

Yahoo! Southeast Asia announced o­n June 11 it has selected four Vietnamese information technology companies to become its authorised resellers.The resellers will promote and sell various forms of Yahoo! o­nline advertising to companies and brands in Vietnam. The selected Vietnamese resellers include Admax Network Holdings Limited, FPT Advertising Services (FPT ADS), GAPIT, and Golden Communications Group. Yahoo!’s move is seen as a pivotal step in “Vietnamising” its services for millions of Vietnamese users to make Yahoo! the favoured launch pad for local web surfers. According to Director General of Yahoo! Southeast Asia in Vietnam, Vu Minh Tri, Yahoo! has a strategy to utilise its global expertise to promote the internet as a means to bring economic opportunities to its partners and encourage the use of the internet to develop businesses

Hanoi Times – It’s estimated that Vietnam will spend US$ 4.07 billion for high-tech products in 2008, up 27% against 2007, almost all for household electronic and electric equipment, products and services of information technology, telecommunication and photographic inventions.

Hanoi Times - Yahoo! Southeast Asia announced o­n June 11 it has selected four Vietnamese information technology companies, namely Admax Network Holdings Limited, FPT Advertising Services (FPT ADS), GAPIT, and Golden Communications Groupits authorized advertising resellers.

Hanoi Times – Over 200 corporations, including leading companies, will display their newest and most modern electronic and information products and services at the 13th International exhibition o­n the Panorama of information technology, telecommunication and electronics, taking place in July 15-19 in HCM City.

Hanoi Times – Hanoi University of Industry’s (HaUI’s) robocon team, FEE 02, won the championship at the Vietnam Robocon 2008 final held in Ho Chi Minh City o­n June 8.

Authorities detected four companies committing software piracy during a software copyright inspection campaign in early 2008.

A school information technology company has recently published the first Vietnamese learning software in Vietnam. A reporter from the Vietnam Economic Times interviewed Bui Viet Ha, director of the company about this software* Why did the company decide to do this software? As far as I know, in Vietnam, there is no similar Vietnamese learning software for Vietnamese as well as for foreigners. Moreover, many families asked us to do this type of software. So, it can be seen that there is a big demand for this software. In addition, the present Vietnamese learning programme at school is very difficult. In the past, the Vietnamese primary programme needed o­ne year. Now, it has been reduced to o­nly o­ne subject of the first grade. In the present Vietnamese spelling programme, each pupil has to study two syllables each day, continuously for 100 periods. Such a programme is too hard for pupils. Vietnamese is a difficult language. It took us two years to produce this software. * What sources did you use to produce this software? When designing this software, we used all Vietnamese learning textbooks and programmes by the Education Publishing House. The main data includes 173 sounds, 519 pictures and 1,374 key words. All were recorded with a standard Hanoi accent. * What are the main contents of the software? The main content is lessons reproducing Vietnamese according to four directions such as studying letters and writing. * Which computers can be adapted to this software? Who can use this software? This software is adaptable for any computer. Pupils at 5, 6 and 7 years old preparing to study Vietnamese at primary schools can use the software. They can use it to study, review and do exercise at schools and at home. Parents can instruct their children to study. Teachers can explain in the class. Cverseas Vietnamese and foreigners can also use the program. In the near future, we will further develop this software by studying dictation and basic Vietnamese grammar. * Thank you very much!

FPT Software, a subsidiary of the Financing and Promoting Technology Corporation (FPT), will open a branch in Paris o­n June 13, its third overseas and the first in Europe At a press briefing in Hanoi o­n June 4, the corporation’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer of FPT Bui Quang Ngoc said the FPT Software Europe will provide giant customers such as Renault, BNP Paribas, Neopost and Hitachi Europe with various services, including new technologies (J2EE, NET, Oracle), embed technology and research and development services. The branch will initially operate in Belgium , France and the UK with a projected revenue of 7 million USD and plans to expand its operation to Sweden , Denmark and the Netherlands by 2009. FPT Software also plans to open another branch in Europe by 2010 in an ambition to penetrate deeper into this lucrative market

Software copyright infringement in Vietnam in 2007 decreased 3%, according to the fifth annual research study o­n software copyright piracy carried out by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

About 85 percent of software run o­n personal computers in Vietnam last year was pirated, costing the industry double 2006 figures at US$200 million, according to an international software group

The authorities of the southern province of Kien Giang reported a UFO explosion over Phu Quoc Island to the government o­n May 27.