iPhone 3G tethering App pulled by Apple (updated)
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zdnet.com     Aug 1, 2008            

Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 9:27 pm One of the most oft-requested new features in the iPhone 3G is modem access/tethering. Now that it has a chip capable of 3G data downloads, it stands to reason that you’d be able to connect your iPhone 3G to a MacBook and use it as a modem. But you can’t. Even though AT&T has data tethering options for its other smartphones (granted, it costs an extra US$30 per month) it doesn’t offer a similar feature with the iPhone. Why? Enter NullRiver, Inc. the developer of the pre-eminent post-jailbreakering tool Installer.app. They briefly slipped a data tethering application called NetShare into the App Store. According to a post at MacRumors NetShare allowed you to share your iPhone’s EDGE or 3G Internet connection with your computer by providing a SOCKS5 proxy for your computer to connect to. The... [read full story]                    


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