Could tethering your iPhone's Net connection to your laptop soon be a reality? After earlier failed efforts to do just that, now AT&T says tethering is coming soon to an iPhone near you.

Tethering allows the handset to be used as a mobile broadband modem for a PC. O2 was listed as one of 22 iPhone carriers who will allow this functionality, which obviates any need for a 3G dongle.

The fourth beta of the iPhone 4.0 OS hints that AT&T might finally enable Internet tethering, after the carrier failed to activate the feature for almost a year since Apple introduced the capability.

The process involves a homebrew collection of software and hardware hacks, and ultimately allows your computer to see your iPhone as a modem thanks to a combination of 3proxy, Terminal, and Wi-Fi.

So if you are an iPhone user, you would have to purchase a separate device with its own data plan to use on your laptop or other computer with the 3G network. Nonetheless, enterprising hackers ...

The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend as Apple briefly returned the program to the App Store on Friday, but then yanked it from the ...

Despite AT&T's lack of tethering services for the iPhone 3G, a group of intrepid developers has produced a viable method for using the phones as wireless modems for laptop or desktop computers ...

The fourth beta of the iPhone 4.0 OS hints that AT&T might finally enable Internet tethering, after the carrier failed to activate the feature for almost a year since Apple introduced the capability.