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Reid Takes Risk Pushing Public Insurance Plan

WASHINGTON — In pushing to include a government-run health insurance plan in the health care bill, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is taking a calculated gamble that the 60 members of his caucus could support the plan if it included a way for states to opt out.

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McCain introduces bill to block Net neutrality

Raw Story-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would effectively allow Internet service providers to slow down or block Internet content or applications of their choosing.

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Adam Lambert’s ‘Time for Miracles’ Video Premieres

‘American Idol’ runner-up walks through apocalyptic ‘2012’ scenes, singing of lost love. By Jocelyn Vena Adam Lambert in “Time For Miracles” Photo: RCA Records While Adam Lambert is still in the studio completing his major-label debut, For Your Entertainment, out on November 23, his music video for “Time for Miracles” premiered on MySpace on Wednesday morning (October 21)

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Taylor Swift Relives High School In New Video For ‘Fifteen’

The clip debuts Friday night on CMT special ‘Fifteen Swiftly-Made Videos.’ By Jocelyn Vena Taylor Swift in her video for “Fifteen” Photo: Big Machine Records Taylor Swift is “Fifteen” all over again in the new music video for her song of the same name. The video will make its official debut Friday night (October 9) on CMT after a special about the singer titled “Fifteen Swiftly-Made Videos.” The 90-minute special will include Swift’s entire video collection, including fan favorites like “Teardrops on My Guitar,” “Love Story” and the VMA-winning “You Belong With Me.” It will also include performances from other CMT specials like “Studio 330 Sessions” and “CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift,” reports JustJared.com . The “Fifteen” video, however, has already found its way online

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‘New Moon’ Soundtrack Clips Hit The Web

British Amazon site posts 30-second clips of all songs of soundtrack from second ‘Twilight’ film. By James Montgomery “New Moon” soundtrack cover Photo: Summit Entertainment It’s not a leak, but the site British Amazon.com has given fans an unexpected preview of the hotly anticipated “New Moon” soundtrack (which hits stores on October 20) by posting a 30-second snippet of each song on the album

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Adam Lambert Thanks His Fans, Sports Facial Hair

For the last few weeks, Adam Lambert has been a man on a mission.

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Amazon.com expands private-label business

Amazon.com Inc. is quietly expanding its private-label business in a bid to diversify away from its online bookstore roots and become more like a general retailer. (Fowler, G., 2009, September 18, par.1) Amazon doesn't say what percentage of its $19 billion in annual sales are from its private-label business, but it already sells more than 1,000 products that are manufactured at its request

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Is Kris Allen’s Debut Album Due November 17?

Amazon.com is taking pre-orders for the LP, but the ‘American Idol’ champ’s release date hasn’t been confirmed. By James Montgomery Kris Allen Photo: Bryan Bedder/ Getty Images We already know a whole lot about who’s working on it , what it might sound like and what Adam Lambert thinks about it . And now, we might actually have a release date for it too

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Google to acquire On2 Technologies Inc. for $106.5 million

Google Inc. has announced that it plans to acquire web video- compression expert On2 Technologies Inc. in an all-stock deal worth an estimated $106.5 million.

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Sony unveils two new e-readers

Sony unveiled two new e-readers on Tuesday which will compete with Amazon ‘s popular Kindle e-book readers in the emerging market for digital books, one of which stands $100 less than the Kindle.

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