It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.
 
Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their

A man dubbed the "Timeshare Spammer" was sentenced Thursday to a year in federal prison and ordered to pay $120,000.

The sentencing of Peter Moshu of Florida stemmed from his conviction in June on a federal charge of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act. Moshu was arrested by federal officials after he was

PON-chip vendor BroadLight Inc. may be expanding its prospects in U.S. fiber buildouts, as the company has snared Motorola Inc. as an investor.

Motorola Ventures led BroadLight's Series D funding of $10 million, announced yesterday. The company joins PON vendors Siemens AG  -- through its venture capital arm -- and Tellabs Inc.

Retailers are expecting this year’s holiday shopping season to be one of the best in recent years for PC sales, but consumers may want to think ahead as Microsoft Corp. prepares to launch a new version of Windows in 2006.

Windows Vista, due out in the second half of next year, is

IBM has announced Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) offerings to help telecommunications service providers move from legacy networks to converged next-generation networks.

IBM announced the solutions and plans for six new telecommunications labs Thursday. The company is offering business solutions based on an architecture that integrates IMS with existing service environments. They

Microsoft is announcing the release of a technical beta of the next major upgrade to its Office productivity suite, code-named Office 12.
 
The release will go to a maximum of 10,000 customer and partners, said Eric Brown, director of central marketing for Microsoft's Information Worker EMEA unit, speaking at a

You might be wondering where regular Playlist columnist Eric Dahl has gone. He is still avidly covering music and audio gear for PC World, but since he's swamped with that, I'm stepping in here. Like Eric did, I'll write about technology that helps you enjoy music--and make it, too. I'm hoping to introduce you

The typical Chinese Internet user is under 30 years old and single, and prefers to use the Web for instant messaging and entertainment, a study released Thursday showed.
 
The majority of surfers in the world's second largest Internet population are also mistrustful of buying goods on the Internet, a result

Cellular technology vendor Qualcomm said Wednesday that it has achieved data rates of 3.6 Mbps using its chipsets over HSDPA cellular data systems.

HSDPA is the next generation of 3G for GSM-based cellular operators. So far, typical speeds have been in the 1 Mbps range, compared to about a third that speed

Just days after Apple Computer updated the Windows version of its popular iTunes software, a security firm warned that a new critical vulnerability in the program could let attackers grab control of PCs and Macs.
 
According to an alert posted Thursday by eEye Digital Security, a "remotely exploitable flaw exists