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Facebook goes shopping Google cuts the fat and Intel serves up a fresh batch of chips I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update welcome to the premiere episode of CNN update every weekday i'll give you break down the biggest stories in tech and how it impacts our lives we'll touch on new trends hot devices and new apps all in three minutes if you're watching this on cnet news you're looking at our new interactive video player when you want more information on a story just click the links that come up on the side it'll pause me and i'll just wait here patiently until you return to check out the new player see all our episodes and subscribe to the show visit cnet com / update so let's get started the third generation of Intel's Core processors are out today but don't run out and buy a new laptop or desktop just yet computers with the new high-end i7 chip sets will be available to order at the end of April at the earliest the more mainstream price computers with the new core i5 and core i3 processors will appear around the end of May there won't be any special sticker in the store you'll have to check the model number to see if it's the 3rd generation the part number begins with a 3 you probably won't notice the difference of performance for everyday use the big improvement though is with graphics Facebook has whipped out its wallet again this time for patents facebook paid 550 million dollars to Microsoft to acquire several hundred pads these are patents that Microsoft just bought off of AOL a few weeks ago so now Facebook owns 650 of aol's patents and it also snagged 750 of IBM's patents last month Facebook is going public next month and wants to beef up its patents list hoping it can also protect them against lawsuits and in other news we're watching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone has landed at sprint for two hundred dollars the positive it supports google wallet the negative it'll run on 3g until Sprint's 4G LTE network is ready this summer that is if you're in one of the markets with the new 4g network skype version 1 point 0 is now available for Windows Phones the free skype for windows app works over Wi-Fi or a 3g network but for it to work each person needs to have that Skype app open this replaces the beta test version that came out in February and Google has cut back on several programs and services in order to put more focus in other areas some of cuts include an end to support for google sync for blackberry the end of Google Talk web app and the google flu vaccine finder and today's appt to watch will come in handy for android users if your facebook app crashes off and you can avoid the aggravation and instead use friendcaster its newly remodeled and push notifications will alert you to messages and birthdays or you could always just use the web version of facebook to that your tech news update for today from the cnet studios in new york i'm richard gere