Random music news for Saturday, October 13, 2018
Has Kanye done anything crazy yet today? He’s had enough attention this week, so we’ll leave him out of music news for October 13, 2018. Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca
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Random Music News for Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Back to work. Back to school. But at least pumpkin spice latte is back. And now, the music news for September 5. Canadian music sales from the past week vs. a year ago:
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Another Call to Activate the FM Chip Inside Canadian Smartphones
Inside virtually every smartphone is a chip that allows the device to receive free over-the-air FM broadcasts. Telcos are apparently loathe to activate the chip because that might mean diverting us from using
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Random Music News for Wednesday, November 23, 2016
America shuts down for Thanksgiving later today. I’ll try to keep the music news coming best I can. The Kanye meltdown was apparently sometime in the making. You know about the charity club
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NextRadio Expands into Canada. This Means Smartphone FM Chips for Android Users (MORE UPDATEs: Not So Fast, Canada, BUT…)
Virtually every smartphone on the market has a dormant FM chip somewhere inside. So why isn’t it activated? Simple: wireless carriers would rather we use data (for which they can charge) instead of
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A Campaign to Get Free Radio on Your Mobile Phone
Deep within virtually ever mobile phone manufactured today is a tiny chip capable of receiving FM broadcasts. You’d never know it, though, because it’s not turned on. Why? Because mobile phone providers have no
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AT&T will Activate the FM Chip in Android Phones
Wait: there’s an FM chip in cell phones? Yep. It’s a little sliver of silicon that allows a cell phone to receive broadcasts. And apparently, it’s been there all along. But no one
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