3 months of Spotify premium for under $3. Music doesn’t get much cheaper than that. Photo: Spotify

Thinking about finally signing up for Spotify Premium? There couldn’t be a better time to do it. For a limited time only, Spotify is offering new customers three months of access for just $0.99 a month — that’s $9 off its normal price.

The fact that Android suffers a fragmentation problem is well known, but with Android 5.0 Lollipop finally rolling out around the world, how much of a stabilizing impact is it having on the Android ecosytem?

None whatsoever, according to Google’s latest stats — which indicate that fewer than 0.1 percent of Google Play users are currently upgraded to Android’s latest mobile OS.

Android 4.4 KitKat, by comparison, takes the biggest slice of the pie, with 30.2 percent of users. Following this are the users on some version of Jelly Bean, those using Ice Cream Sandwich (8.5 percent), those on Gingerbread (9.8 percent), and those on Froyo (0.6 percent).

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is to phone flagships what R.M.S Titanic was to actual ships. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

It’s pretty clear that Samsung’s mobile business is faltering at the moment, and members of its executive team are paying the price. Not only has Samsung recently posted dismal quarter profits, but it also wildly overestimated the appeal of the Galaxy S5, with the result that unsold units are now piling up in warehouses.

According to a new report coming out of Korea, to get things back on the right track Samsung has just sacked three top executives in its mobile business as part of large-scale reshuffling/downsizing effort.

The three heads on the chopping block include Lee Don-joo, head of the mobile business unit’s strategic marketing office, Kim Jae-kwon, chief of the global operations office, and Lee Chul-hwan, who was previously in charge of the mobile R&D office.

Chromebooks are only going to get more popular. Photo: Acer

Apple and Google are very interested in taking over the U.S. education market from Microsoft, but when it comes to capturing marketshare, the Chromebook is teaching Apple an important lesson: Price matters.

For the first time ever, Google has passed Apple in the U.S. education market, according to IDC data obtained by The Financial Times, which shows Google’s Chromebook laptops are more popular now in the K-12 classrooms than the iPad.

Screenshot: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Google has launched a new online tool that allows users to see all the devices that have logged into their account in the last 28 days. If you have suspicions that someone may be logging into your Google account without your permission, you can log in and quickly identify any unauthorized access from computers and mobile devices.