The five-day international event, themed "Innovating Futures: AI & Semiconductors Globally," is expected to provide local businesses with meaningful connections with global companies, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience in AI and semiconductors.

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Welcome to this week's Words on the Street, where we explore the latest shifts shaping Vietnam's digital landscape, and look at Deepseek's quiet but intriguing entry into an AI market where ChatGPT reigns supreme.

KTĐT - Information Technology (IT) applications can help reduce traffic accidents by half and considerably ease traffic flow, a leading figure in the IT industry says.

KTĐT - Seizing the social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technology will help create value and stimulate growth for Vietnamese ICT businesses, according to FPT Software Chairman Hoang Nam Tien. 

The Maritime University has landed itself in an embarrassing situation as it has to receive a ship model test basin from the Ministry of Transport.

KTĐT - Technological innovation is important to help Vietnamese businesses enhance their competitiveness and create new, high-quality products and services, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. 

KTĐT - Along with the worldwide success of Flappy Bird, a 100 percent Vietnamese-created game, and new policies set up by watchdog agencies in 2014, the industry is set to develop strongly in 2015. 1.Flappy Bird, developed by Nguyen Ha Dong, a freelance coder in Hanoi, topped the Google Play and App Store lists of games, with the highest numbers of downloads in January 2014. Flappy Bird was one of the 10 most searched keywords on Google in 2014. Though Dong later pulled the game off app stores for several reasons, he has become well known all over the world. The success of Dong has a special significance because it encourages Vietnamese game developers who are still fumbling for the right way to follow. 2. FPT, the Vietnamese largest information technology group in Vietnam, unexpectedly dissolved FPT Online in late 2014, one of its subsidiaries, despite the great successes it gained with MU Online and Thien Long Bat Bo games. FPT Online was dissolved because it reportedly could not operate effectively any more. The event, in the eyes of analysts, showed how competitive the domestic game market is.  

KTĐT - A series of vestiges found in the Tran Temple (Thai Lang) and Lang Ngoi ward in Hung Ha district, northern Thai Binh province, has revealed evidence on the position of the Lo Giang royal palace built in the Tran Dynasty in the 13th century.

KTĐT - BKAV, a large technology group in Vietnam, has said that “it is 10 years ahead of Microsoft, Google and Samsung” in terms of smarthomes. Lumi Vietnam has also jumped into the smarthome market. “The best known technology groups in the world like Microsoft, Google and Samsung have just joined the smarthome market, while we (BKAV) have been present in the field for nearly 10 years,” said Vu Thanh Thang, director of BKAV SmartHome, at a workshop on utilizing information technology (IT) achievements in the real life. Prior to that, BKAV’s managers many times stated at workshops and conferences that BKAV’s smarthome is the best product of this kind now available in the world. And they emphasized that this is a 100 percent Vietnamese made product which is “the most complete system in accordance with Gartner’s standards”. According to the market survey firm’s standards, most of the smarthome models marketed recently in the world belong to the Home Automation group. Meanwhile, the highest level of smarthome – Connected Home – will only develop strongly and become popular in several years. As Thang said, BKAV’s smarthome can meet Connected Home standards. This explains why BKAV says it is ahead of many other technology groups in the world in the smarthome sector. Also according to Thang, the BKAV’s smarthome solution can fix the problems existing in solutions provided by foreign firms – the complexity and the low systems’ software content – which does not adjust the systems to fit the users’ habits. The statements by BKAV’s managers have raised controversy. They have been harshly criticized on IT forums, where they are described as boasters. No one believes that such a high-technology product can be created by the Vietnamese. Meanwhile, BKAV has many formidable rivals who are globally known smartphone solution providers such as German company Siemens with its Synco system, Dutch-owned Philips with Dynalite system, French company Schneider Electric Wiser with Home Control and the US’s Leviton with HAI solution.  

KTĐT - The European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project (EU-MUTRAP) on January 6 provided information and technology (IT) equipment to departments and units under three ministries and the National Office of Intellectual Property.

KTĐT - Domestic Internet connections will not be affected by the cut of AAG cable system but international links from Vietnam will encounter problems for three or four weeks.

KTĐT - A project on using remote sensing technology for monitoring sea and island environment resources is nearing the goal of compiling a basic database on the country’s marine resources and environment.

KTĐT - Many Japanese investors are planning to cultivate hi-tech agricultural projects in Vietnam.

Achievements in building material technology, healthcare and agriculture were the best in the technology field in 2014.

Most Vietnamese companies are negligent when it comes to protecting their information on the Internet, VNCERT director Vu Quoc Khanh told Kinh Te & Do Thi (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper.

Trillions of dong are spent every year to carry out agricultural research projects and Vietnam has nearly 11,000 scientists in the agricultural sector, but considerable achievements have yet to be recorded.

The country has recorded 27.5 million 3G subscribers this year, disclosed the Viet Nam Telecommunications Authority under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

​Vietnam has bagged one gold and two silver medals at the 2014 International Youth Invention Exhibition held in Taiwan (China) from December 19-21.

​The successful production of first rotavirus vaccine (Rotavin) against diarrhea were elected as one of the nine impressive science and technology events of Vietnam in 2014, which were announced during a recent programme jointly held by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Vietnam Television in Hanoi.

​The successful production of first rotavirus vaccine (Rotavin) against diarrhea were elected as one of the nine impressive science and technology events of Vietnam in 2014, which were announced during a recent programme jointly held by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Vietnam Television in Hanoi.

​ Telecom groups are putting a top priority on developing services for the 3G platform, while continuing to view 4G technology as important but one that cannot be implemented soon because of a lack of demand.

​Masscom Viet Nam last Saturday unveiled a new budget smartphone targeted at customers aged between 16 and 35.