BY AVRAHMI BERKOWITZ

Sprint and Transit Wireless announced Wednesday that they have finalized a deal that will bring wireless voice and data service to all 277 underground New York City subways.

“As we build out our new network, adding the vast underground New York City subway system brings a whole new level of connectivity to our customers, whether they’re consumers, public safety representatives, first responders or city workers,” said Greg O’Connor, vice president of engineering at Sprint.

Transit Wireless has connected 36 subway stations over the past two years. Initially, six stations in Chelsea went online in September 2011. Then 30 more stations were connected in April 2013, including the Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle stations.

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BY HELAINA HOVITZ

Last Thursday, Forbes released a story called “Why the Cloud Is Making BYOD Risk-Free.” However, there are indeed reasons to be wary of hopping on this “Bring Your Own Device” party train.

First of all, Microsoft and Amazon, two leading cloud services providers, experienced outages in the past year, and public attacks do happen.

“Hackers are always waiting to get their hands on private data, and most cloud service providers realize a single breach could become a public relations disaster—and, worse yet, a lawsuit,” said Daniel Stelter, professional tech blogger and owner of content market firm Dan’s SEO Copywriting. “You need to ask the service providers you’re considering what technology they use to protect your data while it’s in their hands.”

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BY HELAINA HOVITZ

One way or another, it’s going to cost New York City residents if the government provides “free” Internet.

Some people firmly believe that the government should provide pro bono broadband for all, but others can list numerous reasons why that would more likely be a big mistake.

Let’s start with the one vote for “yes” that we were able to hunt down.

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