Hotspot not working at the coffee shop? No free Wi-Fi at the airport? Let your Android phone come to the rescue: $25 app Tether lets your laptop tap your phone's wireless data goodness.

From the makers of Tether for BlackBerry, the new Tether for Android app has arrived, which allows a computer to take advantage of the data plan on an Android smartphone.With download speeds of up ...

Google has reportedly pulled a tethering application from the Android Marketplace to mollify its first wireless carrier partner. Android, which Google says "brings Internet-style innovation and ...

Apple seems unable to make up its mind over NetShare, the iPhone tethering application which first appeared, disappeared, reappeared, and has now vanished again from their App Store.In what could ...

Tether dubs itself as a digital leash, automatically locking your Mac computer when you walk away.

When I saw a bunch of tweets (Twitter messages) go out earlier that a tethering application had been released for the iPhone, my immediate reaction was: “Yeah, for unlocked iPhones.” But I ...

The FCC has determined that Verizon is not allowed to prevent its customers from downloading third-party tethering apps and circumventing the carrier's extra $20 tethering charge.

iPhone 3G tethering App pulled by Apple (updated) One of the most oft-requested new features in the iPhone 3G is modem access/tethering.

Need an iPhone tethering app? For $2 (and likely a very limited time only), you can download QuasiDisk, a file viewing app that can also share a connection over a proxy. TheNextWeb says it takes a ...

Past tethering applications have either been rejected from the App Store or pulled quickly after they launch. The latter happened today to iTether, which is no longer available via the Apple service.