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Real estate transactions generally need a land title survey to document important details influencing the ownership of the land, such as improvements, easements, rights-of-way and other elements. It provides evidence of any matters that may affect the title or value of the property that are included in record documents and that physically exist on the property.

An ALTA land survey is a survey that is generally required on commercial property transactions. Commercial properties include: restaurants, convenience stores, motels, shopping centers, warehouses, manufacturing plants, service stations, hotels, resort properties, individual retail units, automotive dealerships, office buildings and industrial complexes. In a commercial property transaction, a lender, title company or owner may require a land title survey which meets the ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements. Additionally, an ALTA survey shows improvements, easements, rights-of-way, and other elements impacting the ownership of land. It provides the title company with the information required to insure the title to the land and improvements to the high degree that a commercial development may require.

An ALTA survey is usually ordered by a lending institution when a piece of commercial property is being mortgaged or upon completion of a construction project in order to release the funds being secured by the project. Sometimes, a lending institution may require an ALTA survey for a residential mortgage too. Most residential parcels are not required to have this type of survey, though there are some cases that a Title Company will require this type of survey to be done.

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Stellar Information Systems, provider of data recovery products and services has launched its Phoenix digital media recovery v 2.1 software.

It recovers lost, deleted and formatted digital photos / pictures / images / audio files from removable media, after an accidental deletion, media format or corrupt media. The new version works with any type of digital card reader or external storage media that can mount as a volume. The program displays images that it finds and allows one to recover all of them, Stellar said in a release.

The new software has added file systems like WMA, WMV, MOV, ASF, RM, 3GPP, 3GPP2, DNG (Adobe's standard file format), MP3 and RMI files.

"By adding almost all the file system available in the market place, we have made Phoenix digital media recovery v2.1 the most robust photo recovery software for the Windows," said Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Information Systems Ltd.

The new version of the software recovers lost or deleted pictures from Memory Sticks, Flash Cards, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards, Secure Digital Card, Zip Disks, Mini Disks. This software supports all major camera manufacturers.

The new version of the software has a standard Windows Explorer style Interface that provides thumbnail and enlarged view of BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and TIFF. This also provides selective scan for various file formats and "Event Log" of the recovery process.

The new version, which comes in three different licensing options—Single User, Administrator and Technician—is available online as well as through the company's partner network across the globe.