Stories about: Land Registry

Fraud in the UK hit a 12-year high in 2007, as crooks increasingly turned to the Internet to carry out ID theft, according to KPMG Forensic.

Customers are in the "buyer's revenge" stage of the IT purchasing cycle, still smarting from an era of technology hype where vendors enjoyed the luxury of easy sales and market naivete.

One of the hot buzz phrases in business today is strategic alliance. Everybody's building them in the hope of developing exciting new product offerings, opening doors to untapped markets and ensuring enterprise continuity. Former competitors are suddenly potential partners and old lines of demarcation between clients and vendors are becoming obscured. Yet, few alliances are truly strategic and long-term joint ventures between equal partners are as rare as hen's teeth. "Getting hitched" in business seems to have the same iffy batting average as marriage itself.

Land Victoria has outsourced the design, development and facilities management for its new land titles business system in a five-year contract worth $19 million.

Information purveyor Lawpoint is 'Webifying' its applications with the help of development tools from Forte.