Intel Products Vietnam, an affiliate of the US-based Intel Corporation, on July 29 launched its first central processing unit (CPU) product named Haswell manufactured at its factory in the Saigon Hi-tech Park.

Nearly 80 domestic and foreign physicists are taking part in an international conference in Quy Nhon city of central Binh Dinh province to share the latest achievements and enhance cooperation in the field.

The Vietnamese software industry has been selected as one of the top-ten software outsourcing providers of the Asia Pacific region, radio The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reported.

More than 400 local and foreign scientists, policy makers and entrepreneurs discussed science –technology cooperation for the sustainable agricultural development of the Central Highlands at a seminar in Lam Dong province on July 24.

The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable, which was cut on July 15, will resume operation on 11:00 July 30, FPT Telecom said on July 22, citing sources of the cable’s operator.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratified an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in exploring and using aerospace for peaceful purposes between Russia and Vietnam, according to the Russian news agency Itar-Tass.

Vietnam has been ranked 81st in the ICT Development Index for 2013, up five places from the previous year's index, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

Administrative reform will not be very effective if information technology is not applied, a HCM City leader said.

Russia’s Federation Council, or the upper house of the parliament, on July 9 approved the contents of a cooperation agreement between the country and Vietnam in exploring and using aerospace for peaceful purposes.

In the second quarter of this year, the demand for information technology (IT) engineers surged as Japan had moved some of its software projects from China to Vietnam, the Saigon Times Daily reported.

Vietnamese information technology firms get the nod from Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to use outsourced services, the English language news website VietNamNet Bridge reported.

VNPT International, a member company of the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT), opened a representative office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 7.

The adoption and effective implementation of IT progress in administrative reform at commune and district levels in the central city of Da Nang have brought many positive changes in recent years, the Vietnam Investment Review reported.

Despite macroeconomic challenges, spending in Vietnam for IT services increased 9.9 percent to 446 million USD in 2013, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).