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Conveyancing Month!

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The UK’s first monthly on-line journal dedicated to conveyancers!

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The Law Society’s HIPs

solution will be hard to beat - but questions still remain.

Text Box: The Law Society, in association with global IT giant MDA, has developed an online HIP solution, which, in theory at least, will enable conveyancing solicitors in England and Wales to successfully compete in the HIPs market. If a Solicitor led solution was ever going to work, then it would need to address two particular issues; firstly, the thorny question of “up-front” costs to the home seller; and second, it would have to be a complete solution, and so include a HCR (Home Condition Report) as well as the legal element. On paper at least, the Law Society solution does just that, and a good deal more besides.

Apple launch BootCamp

Text Box: With the successful I-Pod under it’s belt, and with a hard core of devoted fans, it seems that more and more people are buying Macs. To make this choice even easier, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac, thus allowing you to use it as a PC. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today from the Apple website.

Wireless Dawn!

Text Box: Ubiquitous connection to the Internet at broadband speeds from anywhere in the UK is nearly here, and for some of us, it has already arrived. In January of this year, The Cloud, the European leader in Zone wireless technology, announced a major initiative to deploy widespread wireless broadband networks in city centres throughout the UK.

E-Mail Addresses to Steer Snail Mail?

Text Box: The U.S. Postal Service is giving serious consideration to a proposal to start delivering letters and packages addressed to peoples’ emails, rather than their postal addresses. Dubbed “Shellmail”, the proposal is based on the twin notions that these days, people are much more likely to change their physical address than their email address, and that your email address is a unique personal identifier - it belongs to you alone, and nobody else has one exactly like it..

Explanatory note

Text Box: Over the coming months we’ll be taking a detailed look at the Internet, it’s impact on the Conveyancing Industry, and how it will affect your practice. This month, we trace the history of the Internet from it’s earliest military beginnings to the present day.

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