Users can make online transactions safely in Viet Nam without worrying about OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, said Viet Nam's leading security company Bkav.

Effective May 1, all televisions sold in Viet Nam must bear the "Digital Compatible" logo in order to help buyers recognise the standards and authorities to better control the market.

The Government has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to separate service providers under the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) in preparation for their equitisation.

The capital city attracted more than 300 IT projects with a total investment of US$1.8 billion in 2013.

The Vietnamese security company, Bkav, announced that it will train 100 Cuban executives on computer network security, majoring in preventing hacking and virus attacks, within three years by 2017.

Just 20 per cent of Vietnamese companies have registered international and local internet domain names, and the lack of web-based exposure could hurt other firms in the future, experts said at a seminar yesterday.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has urged internet content providers in Viet Nam to implement the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in order to adapt to global internet development.

Intel Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to continue universalizing information technology and the Internet for the Vietnamese people.

An application on Windows Phone of Hue Festival, the biannual cultural event held in the central Hue City, was launched on March 24.

Foreign smartphone producers continue to promote their products in Viet Nam and claim that close to 7 million smartphones were sold in the country last year.