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Eurolink, the leading software solutions provider for residential property management, has raised £731 as part of a campaign to help out British troops in Afghanistan and their families.

The money was raised after Eurolink pledged to donate £10 to an appeal by the Coldstream Guards for soldiers and their families for each software presentation in the run-up to Christmas.

Software solutions provider for residential property management Eurolink has moved quickly to ensure its clients will be among the first to benefit when the new Google property portal launches in the UK.

The portal will use Google Maps as its search mechanism and properties will be uploaded from Google Base which updates the maps.

Eurolink client Young London has scooped Gold as the Best Small Lettings agent in the UK at this year's prestigious Sunday Times Estate Agency of the Year Awards.

The judging panel was impressed with Young London’s attention to detail and excellent standards of service.

The BBC has confirmed the timetable that will make HD services on Freeview available to 50% of the population in time for next June's World Cup, and to 98.5% of the population by the end of digital switchover in three years' time.

In order to bring the benefits of HD on Freeview to as many people as quickly as possible, the Freeview HD rollout has been accelerated with an advance network so that viewers in London, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford and Birmingham receive signals by the end of March 2010.

Broadband speeds can have a major impact on whether or not a house sells, according to website ISPreview.co.uk

A survey found 75% of its readers would not buy a house, even a lovely one, if the best broadband ISP speed it could achieve was just 1Mbps. In addition, 51% would be willing to pay more for a house with "faster" broadband.

Eurolink, the leading software solutions provider for residential property management, is backing a campaign to raise money to help British troops in Afghanistan and their families.

Eurolink will donate £10 to an appeal by the Coldstream Guards for soldiers and their families for each software presentation booked between 20 November and 18 December 2009.

Eurolink, the leading software solutions provider for residential property management, has agreed to sponsor the “Regional letting agency chain of the year” category at The Negotiator Awards.

The awards are considered to be the “Oscars” of the property agency world – with the 2009 judges including some of the most respected people in the industry.

A computer engineer has connected his home to social networking service Twitter, enabling it to Tweet him with updates about his residence’s electricity and water consumption.

According to journalist James Sherwood on website www.reghardware.co.uk, Andy Stanford-Clark, 43, has fitted wireless sensors onto household items scattered around his 16th Century thatched cottage on the Isle of Wight.

Capita Software Services has announced it is working with Community Care Providers Scotland (CCPS), the association of voluntary sector organisations, to pilot the Capita Support web-based outcome monitoring tool. Launched earlier this year, the software will assist providers of housing support to demonstrate the impact their services have on people’s lives.

CCPS’s housing support outcomes framework currently captures those elements which demonstrate the difference that housing support services make to the lives of those who use them. Information about individual outcomes is key to supporting service development and contract monitoring.

Residential property management software solutions provider Eurolink has launched a Budget giveaway of its own by offering property agents a £2000 cash incentive to switch from rival software systems.

Agents currently using either Vebra (GMG) or Reapit technology are eligible for the "scrappage" allowance if they move to Eurolink's products.