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Motorola and Vinaphone in a $28 Million New Deal

Motorola has recently announced that it will expand the GSM network of Vinaphone, a Vietnamese leading mobile operator, subsidiary of VNPT (Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications). The whole deal is worth about 28 million USD and will allow Vinaphone to "spread" its network in no less than 12 new provinces in north of...

26 June 2008
09:55 GMT

Yahoo Debuts 360plus, New Blogging Platform

Yahoo has announced the release of Yahoo 360plus, a special version of its popular blogging platform designed for Vietnamese users. The new blogging application is said to integrate multiple advanced features, many of them being already introduced into the classic version of 360. Although everybody expects the univer...

7 May 2008
04:11 GMT

Vietnam Launches its First Satellite

On Friday, 18 April, Vinasat-1 was launched from the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 6:17 p.m. EDT, with the help of an Ariane-5 ECA space rocket owned by Arianespace. The Vinasat-1 satellite was joined by the Brazil Star One C2 satellite, and both were placed into geostationary transfer orbits. According to the ...

21 April 2008
10:51 GMT

Samsung to Build New Handset Facility in Vietnam

Samsung Electronics, currently the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world (after Nokia), will build a new handset plant in Vietnam, in the Bac Ninh province, somewhere at 30 kilometers North-East of the country's capital, Hanoi. The total cost of the investment is estimated at more than $670 mill...

24 March 2008
10:58 GMT

Online Sexually Explicit Content Not Accepted Anymore

Vietnam is that kind of country that struggles to regulate the content appearing on the residents' blogs, although we all know it's pretty difficult to do such a thing. But according to AFP, the Deputy Information and Communications Minister, Do Quy Doan, aims to reduce the amount of subversive and sexually...

28 December 2007
06:01 GMT

13-Year-Old Boy Kills Old Woman Over Cash for Online Games

Every once in a while, gaming sites (and not only) all around the world report stories according to which someone harmed someone else because of video games. It always happens, that's a fact. Generally, us games editors are skeptical about them being so games-related, but this one folks... Apparently, a 13-year-...

21 November 2007
09:05 GMT

Vietnam Plans to Switch to Open-Source

The Communist Party of Vietnam plans to switch its 20,000 desktop computers nationwide to open-source software until the coming year, this way avoiding problems with copyright infringement.The efforts made by Microsoft to reduce software piracy in Vietnam, where an industry group has estimated more than 90% of all so...

16 October 2007
03:23 GMT

Google Targets the Second Largest Exporter of Coffee

The super giant Google is continuously working on AdSense, the advertising platform which is able to bring considerable amounts of money for the registered users. Google already expanded it into numerous countries but the evolution continues and is now reaching new limits. The Mountain View company proudly announced ...

25 September 2007
03:00 GMT

Hacker Was a History Fan

Hackers attack websites everyday, even if it's not in the news. As studies show it, hackers are after financial profits most of the time. You rarely see a "good old fashioned hack" when the site is down and a message pops up, so that's why I decided to write about this hacker's deeds. Now, this guy was...

20 September 2007
09:16 GMT

Microsoft and Vietnamese Organizations Sign Anti-Piracy Agreement

Microsoft is just one of the U.S. organizations that let Vietnam fight their software anti-piracy fight for them. On June 21, 2007, Microsoft revealed that a group of both U.S. and Vietnamese organizations have inked agreements designed to help reduce the levels of software piracy. Asia in general, and Vietnam in par...

22 June 2007
03:48 GMT

Hot Goodies for Yahoo Messenger to Be Rolled Out

Yahoo is currently in a hurry, because the Sunnyvale company is working on several products for the Vietnamese market that will help the portal attract a new segment of users. It seems that Yahoo wants to roll out some utilities for Yahoo Messenger that will allow the local members to communicate in their mother tong...

11 June 2007
12:06 GMT

Ballmer Got His Hands Dirty Fighting Microsoft Piracy

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer returned to one of the greatest sights of an American defeat after the current Iraq war to score one for the Redmond Company. Present in Vietnam, Ballmer actively participated in cementing an anti-piracy deal involving Microsoft products in one of the markets known for ...

22 May 2007
04:43 GMT

Majesco's 'Operation: Vietnam' for the DS - Lead Your Squad Back to Safety

Nintendo's DS is getting Operation: Vietnam from Majesco Entertainment. The game is currently in development over at the Coyote Console studios, slated for a worldwide release sometime this fall. In Operation: Vietnam, gamers have to try and escape enemy territory, after they've been dropped into the war-to...

16 May 2007
11:28 GMT

Brangelina Adopts Again

This just goes to show that there's never smoke without a fire: the blogosphere has been covering this story ever since last weekend, when rumor had it that Angelina and Brad Pitt's visit to Vietnam might also include picking up a new member for their continuously expanding family. However, the rumor was qu...

2 March 2007
05:33 GMT




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