The ministry is conducting 5G trials in 59 localities, with a 99.8% population coverage rate for 4G.

2023 has been a successful year for Vietnam in digital transformation with many steps forwards, according to Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung.

The market share of Cloud services between foreign and domestic enterprises is 80 percent and 20 percent respectively.

Kyber Network, the Vietnamese blockchain-based startup, has had to cut its workforce by 50 percent after a serious attack in November, estimated to cause a loss of $48.8 million, or VND1 trillion.

Ten outstanding national information and communication technologies (ICT) events in 2023 were announced at a press conference on December 26 morning.

HCM City authorities on Tuesday organised a four-day cyber security drill in an effort to enhance its cyber security readiness amid the growing sophistication of cyber attacks throughout the country.

A video analysis platform satisfies supervision demand. Digital technology helps settle the problem of transport vehicles with excess weight.

Of the 11,428 cyberattacks on information systems in Vietnam so far this year, there were 10,283 phishing attacks, accounting for 89.9 percent, or 6,300 attacks more than the same period last year.

With more and more Vietnamese practicing jogging to improve their health, smartwatches that support physical exercise are increasingly being favored in Vietnam.

2023, the year of national digital data, has successfully ended with the fulfillment of tasks planned for the year, especially improvement in digital data at state agencies.

State management agencies not only need to perfect the legal framework but also act as a bridge to help connect Vietnam’s digital platforms and potential users.

The version of the large language model (LLM) built by Vietnamese Zalo has the ability to answer questions accurately, offering hope for a good LLM model for Vietnamese.

In Vietnam, AI (artificial intelligence) technology is mostly used for customer care services, especially in the banking sector and insurance.

BKAV Corporation has announced the launch of the antivirus software BKAV Pro 2024. The new version is integrated with My Bkav, which is the platform connecting BKAV and users to prevent cybersecurity risks.

With VNG’s playing card simulation games forced to stop operation, card games no longer exist in the Vietnamese game market.

The emergence of ChatGPT has prompted Vietnamese to search for more information  about AI (artificial intelligence). The top search is the Make-in-Vietnam AI robot.

Jensen Huang, CEO of US chip giant Nvidia, loves eating Vietnamese dishes, according to Hoang Anh Tuan, the Vietnamese General Consul in San Francisco.

As of December 2023, Vietnam counts around 15 million 2G mobile users, making up around 13 per cent of the total subscriptions.

The deployment of two digital platform – IRLab and DFLab – has improved the capability of handling cyberattacks for the incident response team of the member units of the National Cyber Information Security Incident Response Network.

There were some 13,900 cyberattacks in Vietnam in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%, according to a report announced by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on December 12.