Tethering: It’s one of the most convenient features your smartphone has, yet carriers insist on restricting it. Tethering most often refers to using your smartphone as a mobile hotspot. In other words ...

Android users, it’s time to pony up the cash for that tethering plan with your smartphone. Wireless carriers and Google are cracking down on Android users who download apps that allow them to use ...

The blogosphere’s abuzz right now with word that Verizon — the typically Android-friendly carrier — has begun blocking all tethering apps from its Android devices. Have you heard about this? The ...

Using an Android smart phone as a wireless modem for your laptop or tablet is about to get more expensive for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon subscribers. The three major carriers have begun blocking ...

There’s a new ruling coming from Judge Thomas Pender which is about how to interpret a Nokia patent which was decided in favor of the Finnish manufacturer and could result in the banning of tethering ...

Over the last few weeks, AT&T has been trying to crack down on iPhone users who are using jailbroken devices to tether on the network without paying the extra $25 fee. Users who AT&T determines are ...

Mobile Carriers in the US have started cracking down on some of the Android tethering apps that are available through the Android Market, with carriers AT&T and T-Mobile blocking access to the ...

When it comes to sharing your smartphone's data plan, there are two options, mobile hotspot and USB tethering, but which is ...

Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET ...

The app is compatible with iPhones, iPod Touch and iPad devices running iOS 5.1 or later as well as Android devices running Gingerbread 2.3.3 or later, and is now available on Apple's App Store and ...