Intel Pakistan marked the end of its national science competition by announcing the winners of the Intel National Science Fair, who will go on to represent Pakistan at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2012, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The grand winners of the Intel National Science Fair are; ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Shiza Ghulab, Mahnoor Hassan and Bushra Shahed from Institute of Computer and Management Sciences, Peshawar. The individual winners are; Musa Rahim Khan from Agha Khan Higher Secondary School, Chitral and Syed Shahzeb Hussain from Army Public School and College, Command and Staff College, Quetta.

Microsoft has aggressive plans for tapping the business potential in Pakistan with its important geo strategic location, growing population and extraordinary number of students.

This was said by Sayed Hashish, General Manager, Microsoft North Africa, East Mediterranean and Pakistan at the launch of Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) lab on Wednesday.

He said the Microsoft has designed a CIE with the investment of nearly one million dollar for facilitating emerging number of IT companies, small entrepreneurs and students of different fields.

The CIE will provide them hand-on experience to test drive Microsoft products for choosing best suited solutions for their business model, which will enhance the working performance of their commercial activities but it will also save the cost of their operations substantially.

Teradata announced that nominations for the 10th Annual National IT Excellence Awards are being accepted until January 6th, 2012. The awards program, sponsored by Teradata, was designed to acknowledge outstanding achievements by individuals in the Pakistan information technology (IT) community. Winners will be recognized at a gala event to be held in March 2012.

“We look forward to recognizing those individuals that have had the greatest impact on the Pakistan IT community – we are looking for the best-of- the-best,” said Khuram Rahat, M.D. Teradata Pakistan. “The program has grown ever since we launched it in 1997, as part of Pakistan’s Golden Jubilee, which recognize professionals in the IT industry.”

A total lunar eclipse will occur on December 10, 2011. This will be second of two lunar eclipses in 2011. The first was in June. There will not be another lunar eclipse for three years.

It will be visible from all of Asia and Australia, will be seen rising over eastern Europe and setting over North America.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon goes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from reaching the moon. This can occur only when the moon, earth, and sun are aligned. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse can be viewed by the majority of the world. Also, it is safe to view a lunar eclipse, unlike a solar eclipse which leaves people blind.

Network Engineering is honestly not Desktop Support – This domain is extremely vast and offers very rewarding and challenging careers, I will try to cover most important aspects, skill set needed to be on the Network Engineering track and differentiating factors – considering the fact there are more than 2k+ students pass-out locally every year with Computer Engineering degree.

Two very prominent domains of Industry students can choose if they would want to be part of Network Engineering profession. One is Vendor Partner(s) or Solution Providers industry and the second is Internet/Data Service Provider(s) industry.
I will briefly try to describe the difference between these two industries and the skill set required to be the most ideal candidate for the employers from these and the strategy one can adopt to hunt the opportunity in the most suitable domain.