The long-awaited (previously confirmed) iPhone 3G tethering plan for AT&T is coming this week for Macworld, says TUAW. Standard AT&T tether plan pricing: $30/month with a 5GB cap. Who’s excited??? [TUAW]

Kodak’s recent digital offerings have been decidedly entry-level products. The new Zx1 camcorder and Z980 Megazoom point-and-shoot keep to Kodak’s short tradition of low prices, but look like they might be solid performers too.

The Z980 is a low-to-midrange bridge camera, primarily marketed (like its predecessors) for its formidable 24x zoom.

Following a good half year of courtship while the regulatory miscellany ran its course, Verizon’s finally ready to take the plunge and call this $5.9 billion deal done. The combined juggernaut will amass a staggering 78 million subscribers, putting it roughly 3 million ahead of its closest rival, AT&T, though it’ll do so at the cost of assuming some $22.9 billion in Alltel debt.

I recently counted all my email accounts, and I have close to 50. Of course I don’t use them all, but I certainly have more than one active account. The fact is, most people do, and it can be frustrating to manage all those emails and logins - not to mention social networks, a form of communication that is growing rapidly.

As internet users gain more and more ways to communicate, they are looking for ways to centralize and bring things together.

GSplit is a free application that lets you split BIG files into smaller pieces, giving you the ability to share them, copy or backup to floppies, CD, DVD, USB, upload to hosts with file size limit restrictions, networks, send them by email etc.

Sharing files with your friends & family was never this easy, especially since another handy feature is that you can also split several large files at once.

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Booker Prize Takes Madoff Hit; iPhone Book Mania; Horace Engdahl Out at Swedish Academy; American Muslims’ Catcher in the Rye; Sir Bernard Crick Dead; Baker & Taylor U.K. Insurance Pulled; Murdoch Book Sales Flaccid; Breaking Through to White Readers; and 21st Century Les Miserables

Callaway Arts & Entertainment has teamed up with the New York Times to produce Obama: The Historic Journey, which will be distributed on President’s Day, Feb. 16 by Penguin’s Riverhead Books imprint.

Despite the current softness, Simon & Schuster’s publishing programs are fundamentally sound, company CEO Carolyn Reidy said in her year-end letter to employees, and its digital efforts yielded a huge increase in sales.

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Sarah From Alaska; Obama’s Poet; Julius Fast Dead; Conor Cruise O’Brien Dead; S&S Quadruples E-Book Sales; and Moon Over Amazon U.K.

GSplit is a free application that lets you split large files into smaller pieces, giving you the ability to share them, copy or backup to floppies, CD, DVD, USB, upload to hosts with file size limit restrictions, networks, send them by email etc.

Sharing files with your friends & family was never this easy, especially since another handy feature is that you can also split several files at once.