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There have been a number of good Samsung Galaxy S6 deals available for US customers recently and now Canadians are receiving a bargain of their own. Google and Samsung have teamed up to offer six months of access to Google Play Music for free when you buy a new Galaxy S6 in Canada. The offer is also partially extended to other Samsung handsets in the country. Customers will be gifted three months of access to Google’s music service subscription for free with the purchase of any new Samsung smartphone. With over 30 million tracks to listen to, it’s a rather good deal for the music lovers out there. To help spread the word about the offer, Samsung is dispatching teams to music festivals taking place around Canada, who will be providing Play Music demos. Should I buy a Galaxy S6? LG G4 vs Samsung Galaxy S6 /... Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edg... Samsung Galaxy S6 Review! Google has also recently launched an ad-supported version of Play Music in the US, which aims to

In our five-part UK network review series, we take a look at the UK’s major networks and major virtual network operators (MVNO), including the plans and services they offer and whether they’re about to be snapped up or buying a rival in the biggest shake-up of the UK market in a decade. Today’s entry is our EE review. EE is technically the UK’s youngest network, having only been formed of the merger between Orange UK and T-Mobile UK in 2010. First the company was called Everything Everywhere and in August 2012, the company announced that the EE brand would offer 4G in the UK, with Everything Everywhere becoming the legal entity and parent company of all three brands. Since then, the network bought LTE to the market nearly a year before its rivals – although regulator Ofcom certainly had a hand to play in it, launched its own TV and Broadband services, and has one of the best networks in the UK. It also has an exclusive partnership with the Football Association to make the natio

  The European Commission has been gradually chipping away at data roaming costs within the European Union and has now decided to abolish roaming charges on the continent on June 15 th 2017. The new rules state that customers on EU based operators will pay the same amount across the Union as they do in their home country. However, there was potential for an exploit here, whereby customers in one country could buy a cheaper SIM deal from abroad in order to achieve cheaper rates. To combat this issue, the Commission has ruled that there will be a limit to the amount of roaming data and calls that are free before a carrier can begin charging any additional fees. When travelling in the EU, mobile phone users will pay the same price as at home Sadly, the summer of 2017 is still quite a way away. Until the new rules come into force, the Commission will be imposing another interim cap which will begin from April 2016. Carriers will be limited to charging customers a maximum of €0.20

A sizzling hot breaking rumour suggests that Microsoft could drop its Windows Phone platform and instead adopt the Android OS with its own applications and services preloaded. The rumor goes on to state that both Microsoft and Google would form a partnership that would see the former offer Android devices preloaded with Microsoft apps while the latter would develop versions of Google Maps , YouTube and Search  designed for Microsoft’s desktop OS. Preloaded apps are likely to include Office , Skype and OneNote , which were all preloaded on the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge as part of Microsoft’s deal with Samsung. The rumor comes as Microsoft has agreed to sell part of Bing Maps to private taxi service Uber . As part of a restructuring led by CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has also agreed to close its Web display ads business and turn this over to AppNexus and AOL , the latter who was just acquired by US carrier Verizon Wireless . Potentially referencing the big changes

It turns out that I’m not alone in thinking that partnering beer with technology is a winning combination. Google and Thinking Box have joined forces to build Molson’s Global Beer Fridge, which will serve cool refreshments to those with the right language skills. The fridge is powered by Google’s real-time voice translation technology. To open it, you will need to find enough people with a mix of language skills to say “I am Canadian” in six of the forty different languages that the fridge can detect, which ranges from French to Hindi or Korean. The fridge aims to celebrate Canada’s cultural diversity and has been commissioned just in time for the country’s birthday on July 1 st . Sounds like a good way to celebrate to me. Not to mention there’s some extra publicity in it for Molson too. Of course you will have to be able to find the fridge if you want to grab a free drink. Its next appearance is scheduled for July 10 th in Toronto, just in time for the start of the Pan Am Game

Google’s motto “don’t be evil” can only do so much, due to the fact evilness is such a subjective matter. Google is a company of great power; it’s quite possibly the strongest presence on the internet, allowing it to shape and mold the web in many ways. Would they ever do so with bad intentions or selfish motives? A new study from Yelp and legal personality Tim Wu suggest so. Without a doubt, Yelp is a competitor to Google, so we would keep a careful ear while listening to what they have to say. Tim Wu is a legal scholar and former FTC adviser, though, and he is known for supporting Google back in 2013, after an FTC investigation on the Search Giant’s possibly biased results. We have good reasons to believe he may be commenting objectively. The problem with Google Search The study at hand suggest Google is using its insanely popular search engine to control the market and hamper competitors. It’s said Google’s practices harm the consumer instead of offering them the best results p

Let’s give you a bit of background details before we move onto this new product, shall we? The word “professional” gets thrown around way too much in the mobile industry. A plethora of manufacturers keep saying their smartphone cameras and accessories are meant for professionals, but I have always said that’s pure madness and bad marketing. Not only because they are abusing the word’s vague definition, but because features like an f/1.8 aperture, a high amount of megapixels or a “blurry background” don’t make a mobile camera a pro tool. Yes, mobile devices can be pretty damn awesome at taking photos and video, and a good artist can make amazing content with it, but the truth is that at the end of the day size does matter. More specifically, hardware matters; and hardware quality is often at the mercy of size. For example, a larger good quality sensor will always perform much better than a good quality sensor on a smartphne (which would obviously be small). Glass and stability also