The increasing popularity of Uber and its remarkable growth in recent times hints that the era of poorly paid cabs is apparently heading towards its end.

In an email notification sent to eBay on Friday security researcher Jordan Lee Jones has revealed that he has detected a second vulnerability in eBay's website; and has asserted that the flaw can potentially be exploited for hijacking accounts.

According to recent reports, Milton Keynes in the UK is set to become one of the first cities in the country to establish a city-wide, open-access Internet of Things (IoT) network.

For creating the open-access IoT network across the city, Milton Keynes has worked out a partnership with BT, base station builder Neul, as well as the Future Cities and Connected Digital Economies Catapults.

At its LiNC user conference held in San Francisco on Wednesday, Lithium Technologies made the first hints about how it plans to use "social influence" startup Klout which it acquired earlier this year.

Close on the heels of unveiling a number of optional new features of late, social network Facebook has now updated its iOS and Android apps with a new audio recognition tool is capable of identifying songs and TV shows.

The release of Glenn Greenwald's new book - titled 'No Place to Hide' - has brought several more Snowden leaks to light; with one of the bombshell allegations being that US National Security Agency (NSA) tampered with Cisco router before export.

In a move which will be especially useful for cyclists biking in unfamiliar areas, Google made the quiet addition of elevation data to bike routes in its online Google Maps service on Friday.

The addition of elevation information for cyclists is a new feature launched by Google for its Maps service. The feature apparently works for a large part of the US and Canada, for any distance.

In a momentous move reported recently, UK's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and entertainment industry have agreed to join forces to combat piracy. Towards that end, the first step by the ISPs will be to send out "educational" anti-piracy letters to customers who are suspected of downloading illegal content.