Google Indonesia has created an awesome and pretty sweet Chrome experiment that tells the story of Ramayana in an interactive visualization in a digital way. The story is the same classic Sanskrit epic but the characters Ram, Sita, Ravan and Hanuman use modern Google tools like Google Talk, Maps, G+, Docs, Weather, Gmail, Product search and other Google tools in this showcase. As the story goes on, Jatayu even writes a blog! ...

Along with the news about Windows 8 Release Preview download availability earlier today, Microsoft also confirmed the price details for Windows 8 upgrade. It costs only $14.99 for Windows 8 Pro edition upgrade, but only if you buy a new Windows 7 PC between this Saturday, June 2, 2012 and Jan 31, 2013. Microsoft will offer the deal to computer buyers in 131 markets, including the U.S. and Canada. ...

Ever wondering if you’d be better off working for Apple or for Google? Who pays better? Apple or Google? Who gets paid more: designers or engineers? What is the average salary of employees at these companies? A job at either of these tech giants isn’t guaranteed to make you rich, but they do pay their talent fairly well, especially their engineers and designers. Here’s a list of some of the most common positions within Apple and Google, along with their average salary, in ranking order. Business Insider compiled this list in a post from the salary data of Glassdoor, a free jobs and career community that offers the world an inside look at jobs and companies. ...

Windows 8 Release Preview which was originally planned for the first week of June is now available for download. This is not the final version and I would recommend only tech enthusiasts to try out on their personal computers. Release Preview is the third release as part of testing process for Windows 8. The first version which was released back in September last year was called as Developer Preview and the second version was branded as Consumer Preview which was released in late February, 2012. Microsoft started calling new naming conventions against traditional beta, beta 1 or release candidate versions. ...

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook’s first major public interview was just finished few hours ago at AllThingsD’s D10 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. AllThingsD just posted clips of almost the entire Tim Cook interview from D10. In the following video, Tim Cook shared his experience with Steve Jobs and comments as ‘flip-flopper’ - In this second video, for the question about patent wars, Cook had a simple reply: “Well, they are a pain in the ass.” ...

Its not a joke! Yahoo! is all set to launch a new browser tonight at 9PM PT. The new browser is called as Axis. Yahoo describes Axis as “a new mobile and desktop browsing search experience.” There are two parts to Axis: a browser extension and a standalone iOS app. Yahoo offers versions of the Axis extension for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox (along with Internet Explorer 9 for Windows); the iOS app is universal. ...

It’s logical to think that at some point, Apple will not be able to gain any more customers, once every person in the world eats at the table of the iProduct. However, they seem to be performing well enough at the moment - that we can be certain of. The thing about Apple products is that, like them or hate them, chances are that at some point you might own one simply because Apple is cornering the market in a lot of ways. Their build quality isn’t to be sniffed at, even by those who consider their pricing something aimed more at a Party Casino champion than the average Joe, and their efforts as far as innovation is concerned are second to none. ...

 Forbes listed 5 CEOs that deserve being fired. In that list, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the “worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.” Ballmer, according to Forbes, has destroyed shareholder value and jobs at Microsoft and “singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets.” He’s also seen the company’s share price drop from $60 when he took over more than 10 years ago to its current price in the low $30s. ...

Google+ now allows you to live broadcast your video on air and simultaneously on YouTube with just few simple steps. You can stream your content publicly on your Google+ profile, your YouTube channel and also on your blog/website. The feature is called Hangouts On Air, which has been available to selected users for a while, but is only now being released for general use. The ability to use Hangouts On Air will be rolling out to everyone over the next few weeks. You can also plan to stream your content like birthday, marriage or other occasions. As of now, this will broadcast publicly everything. ...

Just imagine how Apple is really worth in terms of cash? Apple’s total sales in 2011 alone were $128 billion! That’s more than the gross domestic product of about 160 nations around the world. Here is an interesting infographic from Best Computer Science Degrees which compares Apple’s massive reach around the world. Some of the eye-popping statistics of the trillion dollar company - Apple’s release of its latest iPad was massive: the company sold 3 million devices in the first 72 hours of release. ...