Daily Crunch: Decent Edition

If you do not need to drop $300 on a phone we do not blame you -- honestly, the theory makes us feel a piece dirty too. MediaTek doesn't seen any cause of it either. The corporate was working its way in to the mobile chipset business for a short time now, and its latest is aimed squarely on the lower end of the handset spectrum but still promises to deliver the most recent in… »

There's no power outlet, land-based internet connection or perhaps a decent cell signal in sight, yet we're posting this live, at fast broadband speeds. We're miles deep into Camp Pendleton, connected to ViaSat's SurfBeam 2 Pro Portable mobile satellite transceiver and sending data to and from ViaSat-1 located greater than 20,000 miles above our heads. SurfBeam 2 wasn't designed for us… »