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September 16, 2013, 8:35 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy  —  Video streaming giant Netflix sees itself as one of the most prominent competitors to the many pirate sites that offer video content without owners' permission.  —  However, these pirate sites also offer Netflix valuable information …
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) …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Stores to show off iPhone 5s Touch ID feature using demo app  —  One of the cornerstone features of Apple's upcoming iPhone 5s is the Touch ID fingerprint scanning system.  The feature allows an iPhone 5s user to unlock their iPhone or authenticate iTunes/App Store/iBooks downloads …
Thomas Schulz / Spiegel Online:
Google Translate Has Ambitious Goals for Machine Translation  —  Can the language barrier be breached?  Google certainly thinks so: Under the leadership of a computer scientist from Germany, the company is making progress toward a universal translation tool.  But competition is looming from Microsoft and Facebook.
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
Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley Luminaries Got Grilled On The NSA At Disrupt, Here's How They Responded  —  On Monday, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wrote that he would press the CEOs, VCs, and other Silicon Valley leaders who he was interviewing at TechCrunch Disrupt about the NSA scandal.
More: Forbes

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