Interested in seeing a live KISS concert tonight? Ustream , a company that lets people broadcast live interactive video, has embraced the mobile phone even more aggressively: It just launched a mobile viewer feature for Android phones. Called Android Viewer, it enables users to watch any Ustream show on ..readmore

At PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight video streaming to an iPhone. While Microsoft user experience platform manager Brian Goldfarb said that Microsoft “worked with Apple” to make it happen, don’t expect plug-ins for Mobile Safari to start flooding the App Store. Instead, Microsoft worked to make its IIS7 server ..readmore

Version 5 of the popular Mac virtualization package, Parallels Desktop, has hit the streets, and Ars puts it through its paces . Gaming performance, Windows 7, content creation, Linux—it’s all here, plus the inevitable comparisons to the most recent VMware Fusion release. After a series of complications and setbacks, ..readmore

I’m pleased to announce the latest plans by DEMO : First, we’ve identified 7 technology sectors that will serve as the primary themes for product launches at the next DEMO in Palm Springs on March 21-23 . Second, we’ve created a brand new DEMO Mentor Program, which will connect ..readmore

TVDeck , a new site that launched its public beta test yesterday, aims to help Internet users find some of the best and most interesting videos among the massive amounts posted on the web. TVDeck does this by aggregating the feeds, in a way somewhat similar to Alltop, of ..readmore

Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues? Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices. (If you’re ..readmore

Rats get road rage via gasoline, find unleaded stressful: Maybe some of the erratic behavior we see on the roads can be ascribed to people who’ve breathed a bit too deeply while filling the tank. Rats made to inhale gasoline vapors experienced significant changes in neurotransmitter levels , and ..readmore

Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of an “explanatory memorandum” for a proposed clause that prohibits the managers of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as well as IDN country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) from redirecting users when they try to ..readmore

Updated Twitter Japan will start allowing “premium” tweeters to charge readers a fee, said an executive at Twitter’s Japanese partner. The announcement comes from Kenichi Sughi, an executive at Digital Garage, whose remarks at the Mobidec 2009 conference were reported by local news sources and then summarized by Media ..readmore

Writing about vaccines, evolution, and even dark matter has ended up setting off contentious discussions here at Ars. But no area seems to bring out impassioned arguments as reliably as climate change. Covering the latest scientific results can bring forth cries of scientific fraud, conspiracies, and denialism; considering policy ..readmore

Netbooks are likely to be a popular gift this holiday season—they’re cheap, highly portable, and the kind of thing that you can give as a gift to a relatively novice computer user who needs a laptop but doesn’t need the power or responsibility that comes with a more expensive ..readmore

Here’s a list of Web sites you’ll want to keep an eye on for Black Friday deals, so sync them across your computers with Chrome bookmarks, save them to delicious or just store them in your favorite browser. BlackFriday – Google Chrome – WWW – Clients – Browsers

For the fifth year in a row, Walmart saw the most online traffic on Thanksgiving Day, according to market researcher Experian Hitwise . Walmart had 14.97 percent of of the traffic among the top 500 most-visited retail web sites on Thursday, up 9 percent from 13.72 percent a year ..readmore

Interactive outdoor display advertising has become a hot holiday trend, with Google displaying voice search results on a massive screen in Times Square . Across town at Saks Fifth Avenue, Microsoft sponsored a display to promote Windows 7, which Mac fans tried to hijack . But bootstrapped Dublin startup ..readmore

Online retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season — even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales. Christmas and holiday season – retail – Business – Retail Trade – Retailers

Your tech dream may be your significant other’s nightmare. Here are the items our married tech experts drool over (while belittling one another’s choices). Social Sciences – Psychology – Dreams – Products and Services – Interpretation

Black Friday online spending rose 11 percent in the U.S. to $595 million, according to market research firm comScore . This e-commerce spending figure trumps the $534 million spent on Black Friday a year ago. On Thanksgiving day, online spending was $310 million, up 10 percent from $288 million ..readmore

Video ad network BrightRoll is seeing rapid revenue growth, according to third quarter financial numbers it just released. “Online video advertising is growing fast enough to make up for most of the fallout in display, email and other online businesses,” said chief executive Tod Sacerdoti. Additionally, campaign momentum is ..readmore

Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways? When Sweden’s IPRED anti-piracy law went into effect earlier this year, Internet traffic across the country plummeted overnight—a sign that P2P users, fearing exposure at ..readmore

Mobile driving application waze is adding a little extra inventive for users to help build out its crowdsourced maps. It already offers users points for “munching” up the road — i.e., driving around with waze and validating the app’s directions. The latest version adds “road goodies,” special spots on ..readmore