The quarterly worldwide smartphone market share numbers are in from Gartner and, depending on who you’re rooting for, they aren’t pretty. Nokia’s trend of struggling continues, while Apple, Research in Motion, HTC, and Samsung continue to show gains. Here in the U.S., Nokia isnR...

The Tibetan spiritual leader accused China’s government of turning Tibet into a “hell on earth.� We hope Beijing heeds his warnings before it is too late....

by Taki Theodoracopulos Thirty years ago this week my daughter was three and my son had not been born. I had left Gstaad for gloomy, strike-ridden, non-stop power cuts London, and the mother of my children was peeved at me as I had begun circling the daughter of the Belgian ambassador to the Court o...

I test a lot of phones.  Sometimes it seems like I have used every phone in existence, although the reality is far from it.  Right now I actively use three different smartphones, all with different strengths and weaknesses.  Each time I use a particular phone I find myself thinking how I would ch...

A SPECIAL AQUIDNECK INQUIRER ENDORSEMENT "now's the time": FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA As we watched Senator Barack Obama speak to a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, a city with which some of the staff of The Aquidneck Inquirer has roots, the great "Now&#...

Hola que tal todos! Me alegraría muchísimo que la gente que seguía este sitio no se haya ido. Es verdad que debo pedir grandes disculpas por no haber posteado nada en casi un año y tener abandonado el lugar, lo que debo decir es que no lo he hecho porque como coincidencia yo tambien me di un rec...

I have talked before about Bluehost, The so called hosting company, and how much they SUCK! Now, I’ve always had issues with Bluehost and their shitty hosting service, but I stayed with them for a number of reasons, mostly because they were cheap and I thought I’d endure it since my prev...

For a long time I have had a love/hate relationship with Scott Weiland. Not like a real, personal relationship but like as a fan and music lover. When the Stone Temple Pilots first became big on the radio back in the early 90’s I was kind of digging their sound. It wasn’t the typical gru...

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in Montreal to get some BlackBerrys unlocked. The city is only 2 hours away from BBCool headquarters in Ottawa, so I took the bus to meet some unlocking companies I found online. The first company I went to was run by a guy called...

You may remember Richard Mouw, the evangelical who is not a religious fundamentalist who recently wrote a Newsweek “My Turn� column expressing his shock and sadness—and tears!—over gay people’s angry reaction to his vote for California’s Proposition Hate. I wrote a response to Newsweek t...