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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Software to manage child Internet access approved

Thanh Hoa province's Union of Informatics and Transfer Technology has successfully programmed software to help parents better control their children's access to the Internet, reports its director Nguyen Huu Hung.

The Manage Access Network (MAN) was designed to prevent access to web sites that do not suit a child's age and development, he said. The list of forbidden web sites could be updated automatically via the union's system or manually.

The software included measures to check or schedule access to the Internet for a day or a month.

MAN would also help users monitor the duration of access to host computers and automatically make payments.

The union is installing the software in the province's Quang Trung, Nguyen Van Troi, Dien Bien, Minh Khai secondary schools and Ham Rong high school.

A union survey shows that two-third of the students at the schools have home Internet access, but parents have little effective control of its use.

"This software is expected to join hands with parents to control their children's Internet use including access to on-line games and porn sites," said director Hung.

It was planned to expand MAN to other provinces.

A 10-day free trial version of the programme is available at www.ccn.com.vn or the software can be bought for 268,000 VND (13.4 USD).

Vuong Hien, of Hanoi , the mother of a 15-year-old son, said that she was always worried about what her child accessed on the Internet.

But the new software would help her control the content her son was allowed to access as well as the time he was on the Internet and its price was affordable.

The Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry's Copyright Information Department granted the union software copyright last month./.

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Software to manage child Internet access approved

HA NOI — Central Thanh Hoa Province's Union of Informatics and Transfer Technology has successfully programmed software to help parents better control their children's access to the Internet, reports its director Nguyen Huu Hung.

The Manage Access Network (MAN) was designed to prevent access to websites that do not suit a child's age and development, he said. The list of forbidden websites could be updated automatically via the union's system or manually.

The software included measures to check or schedule access to the Internet for a day or a month.

MAN would also help users monitor the duration of access to host computers and automatically make payments.

The union is installing the software in the province's Quang Trung, Nguyen Van Troi, Dien Bien, Minh Khai secondary schools and Ham Rong high school.

A union survey shows that two-third of the students at the schools have home Internet access, but parents have little effective control of its use.

"This software is expected to join hands with parents to control their children's Internet use including access to on-line games and porn sites, " said director Hung.

It was planned to expand MAN to other provinces.

A 10-day free trial version of the programme is available at www.ccn.com.vn or the software can be bought for VND268,000 (US$13.4).

Vuong Hien, of Ha Noi, the mother of a 15-year-old son, said that she was always worried about what her child accessed on the Internet.

But the new software would help her control the content her son was allowed to access as well as the time he was on the Internet and its price was affordable.

The Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry's Copyright Information Department granted the union software copyright last month. — VNS

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Need for IT testing rises

Phuoc Buu

HCM CITY — Vietnamese universities should urgently set up training programmes to meet the huge software testing requirements of international IT companies, experts say.

These services are currently being outsourced to Viet Nam, and there is a lot of potential to be tapped in this sector, according to participants at a three-day conference early this week.

Many IT companies attempted to cut costs due to the 2009 economic crisis, sparking a surge in outsourcing work to Viet Nam, said Dr Nguyen Quoc Hung, chairman and CEO of the US-based LogiGear Corporation.

"The main demand for software testing is primarily coming from outsourcing demand and HCM City has a lot of potential to play a role in this market since it is ranked fifth in list of the top 50 emerging global outsourcing cities [by Global Service Media].

"The key to success is to equip our workforce with the skill sets to compete in this market," Hung told Viet Nam News, adding that this is a task for universities and other training institutions.

But most universities in HCM City have not included software testing as a subject in their IT training curricula. "Many graduates have complained that they had to work on software testing that they weren't trained for in the IT faculty," said Dang Truong Son of the HCM City University of Technical Education.

Son said the IT faculty was prepared to start such training programmes.

Many universities, including HCM City University of Technology, HCM City University of Pedagogy, Hoa Sen University and HUFLIT University, also told LogiGear Corporation in meeting last week that they were prepared to offer training in software testing.

Dong Thi Bich Thuy, director of the IT Centre of HCM City University of Natural Sciences, said: "Not many IT faculties in universities have a good understanding of the significance of software testing and only my university and the HCM City Technology University have this as a separate subject."

According to Hung the demand for software testers to be trained in universities is huge. His corporation's subsidiary, LogiGear Viet Nam, has around 300 software testers but Viet Nam still needs about 10,000 engineers with software testing skills over the next three years.

Speakers at the conference said great care should be taken when providing the training needed. "Technology is changing so rapidly that the engineers will need deep training to keep up with the changes," said Dr Cem Kaner, director of the testing education centre at the Florida Institute of Technology.

BJ Rollison of Microsoft's engineering excellence group said minor mistakes could badly impact product quality. — VNS

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