Photos: Vietnam confabs mix tech fever with restraint
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Electronics and gaming trade shows in Ho Chi Minh City attract excited crowds as the communist government increasingly welcomes foreign investment.
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(InfoWorld) - The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from Apple Inc. iPods to Sony Corp. PlayStation 3 consoles and Nokia Corp. handsets, became the latest company to announce a high tech investment in Vietnam, with plans to spend a massive $5 billion over the next five years. The investment by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. will be aimed initially at building a base of electronic components factories near Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, a Hon Hai spokesman said Thursday. The huge investment shows that Vietnam has continued to increase its allure as a haven for IT investments. Last year Intel Corp. announced it would expandÂ a chip packaging and testing project in Vietnam into a US$1 billion affair, more than triple the size of the original plan. The factory is slated to begin operations in 2009, near Ho Chi Minh City. Earlier this month, Taiwan's Compal Electronics Inc., the world's second largest laptop PC maker, revealed a plan to invest US$30 million in a factory in Vietnam. The company plans to make notebook PCs at the factory, which will be located near Hanoi. Â
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LAS VEGAS -- Computer monitors with mechanical arms, wristwatches and binoculars that play music, and phones disguised as cameras are just some of the technological innovations propelling the digital electronics revolution.
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Photo from the CEATEC technology showcase in Tokyo.
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At Demo, a gathering of venture capitalists and corporate high-tech investors watch as demonstrators are present their efforts at breakthrough technology worth investing in.
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The big gadget show is now formally under way in Las Vegas. Here are some of the highlights from Monday.
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Change is in the air at the confab this year, as tech giants start making their weight felt.
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Geek chic of years gone by isn't so cool today, as technology races on.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 16--With pints of beer in hand and a laptop computer tucked into a backpack, Paul Wenzel and Justin Heideman waited among a crowd of techies in a South Minneapolis bar for their turn to show off the new software they made.
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One of the proverbial back stories of IT operations has always been the battle between the "suits" and the "techies." From the techie point of view, the hapless but disturbingly powerful suits are the business guys who put more thought into picking out hundred-dollar silk ties at Nordstrom than they put into million-dollar IT decisions. Worse, the suits gravitate towards outsourcing and service firms that implement big-dollar solutions. Many techies start on the other end of the spectrum with free open source solutions that reflect a substantial DIY ethic. Will the twain ever meet?
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(InfoWorld) - WiMax and a satellite connection are bringing broadband Internet access to a remote Vietnamese village, part of a collaboration between the public and private sector toÂ narrow the digital divideÂ in rural Vietnam. Ta Van, a small village located in Vietnam's northern Lao Cai province, has a wireless network that uses Wi-Fi and WiMax, a wide-area networking technology that offers high bandwidth. This wireless network is connected to the Internet over a link to Shin Corp.'s IPSTAR satellite that offers 2Mbps of bandwidth on the downlink connection and a 512Kbps uplink. The Ta Van project is part of anÂ initiative by Intel, Vietnam Data CommunicationÂ (VDC), and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The partners chose Ta Van as the second site because its mountainous location makes a fixed-line connection impractical, Intel said. The three partners are using WiMax to offer Internet access to remote areas, part of a project to develop an "Internet in a box" application that can be rolled out quickly and cheaply. The first site in Vietnam to host such a network was in Lao Cai, the provincial capital, where 19 sites are connected to a WiMax network that uses a satellite link for Internet access. Inside Ta Van, a single Airspan Networks WiMax base station provides connectivity to 11 locations, including the post office, a healthcare clinic, a school and local guest houses, where owners can offer Internet access to visitors in exchange for a fee. Vietnam's economy is booming as foreign investment and trade rises in the company.The Vietnamese government aims to make sure rural areas are not left behind by technology advances, and wants to see Internet access expanded in these regions.
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Computer monitors with mechanical arms, wristwatches and binoculars that play music and phones disguised as cameras are just some of the technological innovations propelling the digital electronics revolution forward.
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As the runways of Paris are to the garment trade, so will the hallways of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas be this week to the world of digital gadgetry.
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The annual Demo conference is once again a reflection of what's hot in the high-tech industry.
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When Booz Allen Hamilton, the big McLean technology and consulting firm, wants to demonstrate the art of the possible, it invites visitors into a room it calls the "technology petting zoo."
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PC and home theater make sleek package, while new portable music devices abound.
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Companies attending Asia&#39;s leading information technology trade fair here are showcasing their latest products marking a new era of fast video, mobile and Internet services at low prices.