iPhone News Updated

AT&T Executive Says IPhone 3G Tethering Coming ’soon’

Using the iPhone as a wireless modem to share Internet access with a laptop has been off limits to owners of the device so far. But Thursday, AT&T Wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega said that tethering is coming to the iPhone 3G “soon.” De La Vega spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, where he was interviewed by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.

While AT&T does offer tethering plans for other devices that it sells, such as various BlackBerry models, the iPhone has been persona non grata in that department. AT&T charges a $60 monthly fee for the tethering plans, which are usually used in lieu of or in addition to device data plan. It’s not yet known whether the iPhone tethering will be offered under the same terms. De La Vega said that AT&T and Apple were working together to bring the functionality to the iPhone.

Meanwhile, jailbreak developers have created several different solutions for tethering the iPhone to a computer. Such applications were presumed to be prohibited from the App Store, but last August, Nullriver’s tethering app NetShare appeared briefly in the store, having somehow made it through the approval process; it was removed shortly thereafter.

Also last August, word surfaced in an email purportedly from Jobs to an iPhone customer said that Apple and AT&T were “discussing” a tethering solution.

[Thanks: http://www.pcworld.com]

Apple posts updated NDA for iPhone apps developers, seeds iPhone firmware v2.2 beta 2

Apple has posted an updated version of its Non Disclosure Agreement for iPhone developers.

Actually, there’s two NDA’s out there, and only one of them was posted for everyone to see (here), while the other one is available only to registered developers.

According to Macrumours, the main change in this revision of the NDA is:

You agree that any Apple pre-release software (including related documentation and materials) and any information disclosed by Apple to you in connection with Apple Events or Paid Content (defined below) will be considered and referred to as “Apple Confidential Information”.

Additionally, Apple appears to have seeded iPhone firmware v2.2 beta 2 to registered developers and it should be available soon.

iPhone firmware v2.2 beta 1 that is already available has brought such improvements as Google Maps Street View (already available in newly released T-Mobile G1 based on Google’s Android OS) and Japanese Emoji emoticons. Do you know what changes are coming with firmware v2.2 beta 2? Drop us a line!

[Thanks: http://www.iphoneworld.ca]