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September 16, 2013, 9:30 AM

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

Sprint preps ‘One Up,’ its own early upgrade program — Sprint One Up allows customers to pay for their devices in monthly installments and upgrade after one year, CNET has learned. — Better late than never, Sprint is finally getting into the early upgrade game.

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Rdio to announce ad-supported free tier in partnership with radio operator Cumulus — Online Music Service Rdio in Deal With Cumulus — As radio broadcasters go digital and online music services try to stand out in a crowded market, both are finding ways to scratch each other's backs.

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Carlo Rotella / New York Times:

Educators are cautious of reliance on tech as schools adopt tablets from News Corp's Amplify — No Child Left Untableted — Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don't want this thing to take over my classroom.”

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Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Google Glass no longer requires tethering plan for smartphone data sharing — An Explorer Edition of Glass is already a pricey piece of tech, and smartphone tethering plans required to give it a mobile Internet connection have only made ownership that much more expensive.

More: VentureBeat, Gearburn and The Next Web. Tweets: @tim_stevens

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Jolla's Sailfish OS gains Android compatibility, making it an easier sell for manufacturers — Finland's Jolla has made its Sailfish OS hardware- and app-compatible with Android, a move it says will help manufacturers pick up the new mobile operating system with minimal hassle.

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Softpedia News and SlashGear

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Inks Firehose Deal With DataSift To Tumble Further Into The World Of Big Media Advertising — When Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion earlier this year, Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer and CFO Ken Goldman both pointed out that advertising on the site (and revenues from those ads) …

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Spiegel Online:

NSA Spies on International Payments — The United States' NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division.

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Joseph Menn / Reuters:

NSA revelations haven't measurably hurt business yet for major US tech companies

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Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:

Box joins the crew of companies trying to disrupt Microsoft Office — You knew it had to happen. — A year ago, file storage and collaboration service Box hired Sam Schillace, the creator of cloud-based document creation tool Writely, which later became Google Docs, the cornerstone of Google Apps.

More: Ars Technica, CNET, The Technology Chronicles, ZDNet, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Wired. Thanks:@citeworld

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Belgian telco says it was hacked, while reports point to NSA or GCHQ as culprit — Here's a curious one: Belgium's largest telco has filed a complaint against an “unknown third party” that hacked into its internal IT systems and apparently inserted a virus.

More: Belgacom Group, Inquirer and Softpedia News. Tweets: @virusbtn

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

With 30 tuners and 30 TB of storage, SnapStream makes TiVos look like toys — A peek into SnapStream's lab at their Houston office, showing racks of SnapStream Enterprise Servers and disks. — When you're picking out a DVR for your home, there's a pretty short list of candidates …

More: GeekTonic. Tweets: @zittrain and @robpegoraro

DealBook:

Looking To Twitter To Reignite Tech I.P.O.'s — Beginning in 2011, the market for technology initial public offerings exploded with a number of blockbuster offerings — but went quiet soon after Facebook's $16 billion stock sale last year. — Now investors and deal makers are hoping …

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