Not anymore. At least, not if you have an iPhone too. Enter the AirLocation app. Basically, you open up the app on both devices and then you tether your iPad to your iPhone. You’ve done that second part before to share your mobile Internet connection, but since you have the AirLocation app open, you’re now also sharing the GPS signal.

This can be fantastic for things like Google Maps or even Foursquare, should you feel so inclined, since you get a bigger screen without having to fork out the extra money for the 3G/GPS model. Then again, you could just do the GPS thing on your iPhone, but having a bigger screen can prove useful sometimes. After all, that is why you got an iPad in the first place, right?

AirLocation is a buck through the App Store and doesn’t seem to be getting the greatest reviews.

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Fido and Rogers extended their tethering promotion a couple months ago, allowing users to connect their phones to their computers until May 3, 2010. That has now been extended even further, because tethering is a-okay with Rogers and Fido on a permanent basis. Or at least until they change their minds.

This can represent some significant savings for road warriors, because it means that you do not need a separate data plan for your phone and for a USB data stick; you can use your smartphone for both purposes. I thought the restriction was pretty silly in the first place, since data is data, but they thought otherwise.

Effective immediately (March 24), tethering will continue to be included at no additional charge for Rogers and Fido customers who subscribe to a data plans of 1GB and above, with a few exceptions. This new policy replaces the current tethering promotion, originally set to expire on May 3.

So, why the change of heart? Telus and Bell decided recently to include tethering in their data plans at no additional charge, so Rogers and its dog had no choice but to keep pace. It should be noted, however, that this offer does not extend to 500MB data plan users; you need to have a data plan of 1GB or more.

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