Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HCMC – The inspection department of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Thursday said violations of software copyrights have decreased this year but use of pirated software at foreign companies has intensified.

HCMC – If Vietnamese software outsourcers did not improve the quality of their human resources, they would likely lose orders from Japanese information technology (IT) firms despite the fact that Japanese enterprises are shifting their orders to Vietnam.

Vietnam is making efforts to crack down on copyrights infringements, but such piracy still persists.

Foreign information technology firms and investment funds are interested in venturing into Vietnamese IT and software development companies.

Nearly two years after the Public Certificate Authority Services (CA) were put into use, the systems have shown the lack of connectivity. Meanwhile, Vietnamese digital certificates have not been recognized in the world.

Software piracy in Vietnam remains prevalent, and is specially high among individuals' computers although the rate looks a bit lower among corporate users, speakers said at a press briefing in HCM City yesterday.

The high rate of software copyright infringement in Vietnam, estimated at 85 percent, causes annual losses of $275 million in jobs and tax revenues, a report said Tuesday.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team received an "official complaint" from its Korean counterpart KrCERT, stating the South Korean agency had never requested BKIS to help investigate the attacks. "BKIS is only a small centre, but successful in finding the origin of attackers, and then we get in trouble," said BKIS director Nguyen Tu Quang.

Vietnam has joined the ranks in tenth position of the top ten attractive software outsourcing countries in the ranking list of AT Kearney consulting firm (2009 A.T. Kearney Global Services Location Index), reported ICTNews.

From their new office, former Silicon Valley executives Le H. Hung and Steve Cook can look out on what American soldiers used to call Red Beach, where in 1965 Marines launched a massive buildup in this coastal city. Da Nang, a major U.S. Air Force staging area during the Vietnam War, is a city whose name still conjures images of Marines, M-16s and Huey helicopters for many Americans, said Cook, chairman of Enclave, a software development company launched less than a year ago.