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Entries for January 2008

Briefly Speaking
January 31, 2008
With the registration deadline to vote in the upcoming Primary Elections fast-approaching, the Texas Secretary of State’s Office has launched a new web tool which enables Texans to check their registration status online.  Additionally, the new “Onlin...
When business is liable: Blogs, E-mail and RSS feeds
January 31, 2008
From Staff Reports Nearly every company distributes electronic content over the Internet. There are over 100 million daily video streams from YouTube.com alone, more than 60 million blogs being disseminated, more than 60 billion emails per day and R...
CFOs' economic confidence drops
January 31, 2008
From Staff Reports CFOs of American companies’ economic confidence plunged more than 10 percent since last quarter, moving to 19 percent below where it stood at this time last year, according to a recent survey of CFOs conducted by Financial Executi...
Briefly Speaking:
January 30, 2008
Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt is reminding property taxpayers that they need to pay their 2007 property taxes by tomorrow’s due date. On February 1, a 7 percent penalty and interest charge will be assessed. The downtown tax ...
Lawyers preparing for closed hearing
January 30, 2008
by John Porretto The Associated Press Lawyers for civilian truckers who drove into a deadly ambush in Iraq nearly four years ago are getting a new chance to revive their case in a rare closed hearing before a federal appeals court. Former KBR Inc....