Tethering

Software

Download This Tethering App Before It Gets Pulled

5:00AM January 31, 2012 | Adrian Covert

Need an iPhone tethering app? For $1.99 (and likely a very limited time only), you can download QuasiDisk, a file-viewing app that can also share a connection over a proxy. More »


Mobile

Telstra Will Have WP7 Tethering By Year’s End

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1:00PM November 8, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Good news everybody! Well, everybody on Telstra’s Windows Phone 7 devices anyway; you’ll be getting Internet Tethering by year’s end. In best Professor Farnsworth fashion, however, there’s a sting in the tail; it looks like you’ll never get Visual Voicemail. More »


Mobile

BungeeAir Wireless Tether Keeps Your iPhone From Getting Jacked

11:00AM September 15, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

This is the part of the day when I make fun of my sister. She has lost two, that’s right, two iPhones in the span of four months. She doesn’t use a computer so Find My iPhone makes no sense to her. Maybe being hassled by the BungeeAir security bubble will keep her next iPhone in her pocket. More »


Mobile

Is Verizon Trying To Block Third-Party Tethering On LTE?

7:40AM June 8, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The advocacy group Free Press issued a complaint with the FCC yesterday, stating that Verizon is blocking tethering choices on their LTE phones. Verizon has remained cagey on the subject, but if that’s true sparks are gonna fly. More »


Software

The Jig Is Up For Android Tethering Apps

8:04AM May 3, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Bet you thought you were pretty slick there, using a tethering app to turn your Android phone into a mobile hotspot while sidestepping the additional carrier charges. What, you thought your carrier wouldn’t notice? Well, you’re not, they did, and now the free-mobile-hotspot party is over. More »


Software

AirLocation Lets The Wi-Fi iPad Really Use The iPhone’s GPS Signal

2:40AM April 29, 2011 | Casey Chan

We’ve previously reported that the Wi-Fi iPad 2 gained GPS powers when tethered to an iPhone. We were wrong. You’ll need an app like AirLocation to get the iPhone GPS to work with your Wi-Fi iPad. $1.19. [iTunes via Wired]


Software

Tethered Jailbreak For iOS 4.3.2 Is Already Out Using PwnageTool

8:00AM April 15, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

iOS 4.3.2 has only been live for a few hours, but there it’s already been jailbroken using PwnageTool for Phone 4, iPad and iPod touch 3G/4G, with support for the iPhone 3GS on the way. More »


Mobile

Vodafone Now Includes Tethering In Unlimited Plans

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12:15PM March 30, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Vodafone’s Infinite plans were always pretty good value for talk and text, but when it came to data there was a big asterisk that said you couldn’t use the bundled data for tethering. After a bit of backlash, the Telco has decided to change its tune. More »


Mobile

AT&T Tells Jailbroken iPhone Tetherers To Pay Up

3:07AM March 19, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

You think you’re a real smooth criminal, don’t you, using the Cydia app MyWi to tether your jailbroken iPhone free of charge? Well, it looks like your joy ride might be over. AT&T has apparently been sending MyFi users texts telling them to pay up or fall back: More »


Computing

Wi-Fi iPad 2 Gains GPS Powers When Tethered To iPhone

6:33AM March 17, 2011 | Adrian Covert

If you were agonising between buying a Wi-Fi or 3G iPad 2 because of GPS, this might make the decision easier: it gains the same GPS functionality when tethered to an iPhone. More »