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.

The database allows for identifying which tax collector supervises each taxpayer.

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.

Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) found using pirated software in Vietnam are facing a risk of being sued and from being prohibited from exporting to large foreign markets.

Application of atomic energy in socio-economic development is the major topic for discussion at a national conference in the central city of Danang from October 23-24.

The 3rd solid-state systems Symposium – VLSIs and Semiconductor Related Technologies (4S-2014) and the 17th International Conference on Analog VLSI Circuits (AVIC 2014) opened in HCM City.

A comprehensive cooperation agreement between Vietnam and the US has been signed on consultancy capability, research and development, and training and services in the nuclear energy field.

Mobile games, which are expected to earn VND1 trillion of the total VND6 trillion in revenue for the game industry this year, are expected to change the face of the game industry in Vietnam.

Vietnam is the biggest online game market in Southeast Asia with turnover of $237 million in 2013, and the sixth largest market in Asia. Though revenue from the games has been increasing steadily, the market is mostly controlled by foreign game developers.

Agriculture restructuring will come to the fore at the 2014 Asian-Oceania Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) ICT Summit, which is slated for October 28-31 in Hanoi and central Da Nang City.

Research institutes, universities and business enterprises should speed up international integration and become a driving force in socio-economic development by proactively renovating science and technology.

Hanoi authorities have decided that it can make money from the severe weather conditions caused by climate change, saying also that its citizens need to adapt to the new circumstances.

Vietnamese jailbreak-service providers of smartphones, who call themselves “techmen”, have announced that they have successfully unlocked ICloud on the iOS 8 operating system.

While Facebook engineers believe that the sticker feature in the Comments section allows people to express opinions in a fun way, many Vietnamese netizens, with some exceptions, have found the new feature annoying.

The Military Telecom Corporation (Viettel) has launched mobile services under the brand name Bitel in the South American country of Peru.

Next year, South Korea will transfer 167 different kinds of technologies to Vietnamese enterprises in four main industrial sectors.

Viet Nam`s small mobile carriers have sought a postponement of the implementation of a policy allowing mobile phone users to change network providers without having to change their phone numbers.

Vietnamese Apple fans have been able to purchase iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones, just two weeks after the products hit the market.

While SMS and voice communication services have experienced a few setbacks, data services such as 3G are becoming more and more popular.

A number of foreign telecom firms have expressed strong interest in acquiring shares of MobiFone when this mobile carrier launches an initial public offering (IPO), probably next year.

A proposed luxury tax on online games has spread fear among gaming companies, who believe smuggled products would ruin their business if the tax becomes law.

Mobile subscribers complain that the telecommunication services in Vietnam have become unbearably inconvenient: they are bothered every day with spam messages, are being swindled out of money, and are increasingly annoyed with mobile network operators’ attitudes.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will submit its equitisation plan for Mobifone to the Government by end-2014 and if approved, it will implement this plan in 2015.