Washington - Google's new Chrome Web browser is being hailed as a game-changer.

It's fast, has a clean interface, some snazzy features that other Web browsers don't have, and, well, it's free and it's from Google.

Does that mean you should download it right now and spend the time to learn it? If you like new technology, the answer is "sure."

But if you need to be assured of some payoff in new technology before you invest time in it, you might rightly want some questions answered before you switch. Here are a few.

Q: Why did Google create a Web browser?

Sydney, Sept 19: Internet search engine “Google” has jumped ten spots to reach at number 10 in the list of the “Best Global Brands 2008”.

Google, which has built on its dominance in internet searches to expand into software, video, mapping and web browsing, was “the undisputed king of the internet world”, and its brand value had shot up by 43 per cent, from 21.9 billion dollars to 31.5 billion dollars, said a report in news. com. au.

According to the report, the annual study on the hottest brands in the world showed that tech companies put on the strongest showing, financial companies were the weakest, in.

London, September 15 : Google is all set to extend its domination over cyberspace to the high seas, with the launch of its own "computer navy" – a set of supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.

According to a report in the Times, the "water-based data centres" would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google''s costs.

Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centres, which are sited across the world, including in Britain.

Washington - If you want to permanently delete e-mail from your inbox, don't just hit the Delete key. Most e-mail programs have a Deleted Items folder into which e-mail deleted in that manner is sent. To truly remove the e-mail from your e-mail program, visit the Deleted Items folder and clear the contents. In Outlook, you can permanently remove a message by holding down the Shift key and tapping the Delete key.

London, September 13 : The security of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest scientific experiment, is in danger, with hackers mounting an attack on the systems of the mega machine.

The LHC is the world’s largest and the most powerful particle accelerator, located near the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

London, September 10 : Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle have come up with a new scheme that can solve the problem low connection speeds during peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading.

Such problems usually occur when Internet users download P2P content that is stored a long way from their homes, and the online links over thousands of kilometres get tied up delivering it.

The researchers say that their scheme called Proactive Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) can help ease the load.

Their idea is to take the help of Internet service providers (ISPs) in supplying P2P sites with data on the shortest routes between peers.