The oil that fuels the academic machinery

When it comes to supporting the UI’s various colleges and institutions, money talks. The university’s largest source of funding came from tuition and fees – bringing in $240 million in revenue, according to the General Education Fund budget for fiscal 2007. A report published by the UI Office of Finance and Operations said that last year, the university projected to have $2.4 million in additional tuition revenues. The report attributed... 

Leica Geosystems highlights special savings construction tools

Leica Geosystems is offering customers another chance to benefit from its online store enhancement with a special June promotion for the Rugby 50 and 55 construction lasers. This promotion is the latest in a long line of planned product promotions for the online store. Based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland, Leica Geosystems is a global company with tens of thousands of customers supported by more than 2, 400 employees in 22 countries and hundreds of partners... 

PBS&J releases new Flood Map Desktop beta software

PBS&J announced the release of a new, no-cost beta version of Flood Map Desktop (FMD), the newest member of its popular suite of regional watershed management software products and solutions. FMD provides FEMA flood mapping partners with all the necessary tools to quickly and efficiently complete their Map Modernization projects. An extension for ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.1 desktop software, FMD resides on the user’s desktop and requires no... 

ToolKing.com Partners with Shopping Comparison Site: Pronto.com

ToolKing.com, a distributor of consumer, professional, and industrial tools announced today that they have listed 11,000 products on the premier shopping comparison site Pronto.com™. Pronto.com lists over 55 million products and searches the Web to offer consumers the most competitive prices from tens of thousands of qualified merchants. Pronto.com includes five times more merchants than most leading shopping search companies, according to their...