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TiVo and software maker Nero are partnering in the launch of a new platform that will bring TiVo's popular digital video recorder (DVR) experience to PCs. The platform comes with a one-year subscription to the TiVo service, which automatically finds and digitally records a user's favorite TV shows.

Beginning Oct. 15, Nero will offer consumers in the United States and Canada two purchase paths for adding TiVo to PCs -- a complete hardware-software kit retailing in stores for $199 and an online software download priced at $99, said Nero Senior Vice President Kris Barton.

Apple is facing public-relations woes again. This time it involves a USB power adapter's metal prongs that can break off and get stuck in a power outlet. The issue leaves consumers at risk of electric shock.

Apple said it has determined that, under certain conditions, the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter's metal prongs malfunction. Apple declined to reveal what those conditions are. No injuries have been reported.

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American Airlines has announced the availability of Wi-Fi Internet service aboard three of its domestic routes. Customers aboard American Airlines flights from New York to Los Angeles, New York to San Francisco and New York to Miami can access the Internet for $12.95 per flight on its 767-200 airplanes via the service, called Gogo.

According to AA officials, beta testing in May and early August with real customers on cross-country flights showed that the service would be well received.

Is it a long, long way to Tipperary? Don't know if you're on the path to Bath?

AT&T Inc. aims to help, with a new phone service that truly puts the "global" in the Global Positioning System, or GPS.

On Tuesday, it introduced the AT&T Navigator Global Edition, a service that for the first time allows some of its phones to provide GPS navigation overseas. AT&T said it is the only plan of its kind from a U.S. carrier.

The plan costs $19.98 per month and works with seven "smart" phones: four BlackBerry models, plus the Tilt, BlackJack II and Moto QTM 9h.

The hype that began with Apple's iPhone 3G launch Friday continued through the weekend and was almost as loud on Monday, with Apple adding to the fire. The company said it sold more than one million iPhone 3Gs and users downloaded more than 10 million applications from its App Store.

General Motors is shutting four plants and laying off 10,000 workers following what it calls a permanent change in the U.S. market for smaller vehicles. So, four truck and SUV plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico will be shut down by 2009. Sales are expected to be the lowest they have been in more than a decade and consumer confidence is weak.

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In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries starting later this year.

America Movil SAB, controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it plans to bring the iPhone to all of its Latin American operations but didn't offer more details about the arrangement, including whether it would be the exclusive iPhone provider in the targeted countries.

If Massachusettes-based Free Flow Power has its way, the Mississippi River will be producing 1600 megawatts of free, constant, emissions-free energy by 2017. They'll do it by installing thousands, or even tens of thousands, of in-stream turbines at 59 sites stretching from St Louis to the Gulf of Mexico.