Well, the weekend is very nearly over and your back to work tomorrow. What techy things can you talk about over coffee, what advances have been made? Well let me round it all up for you.

Intel Sells Software upgradeable CPU’s

Intel have decided that selling CPU’s at their true speed is bad for business. What they want you to do now is buy a restricted chip in a PC then pay more money to get the true speed back. So you get a CPU that can officially do 3Ghz, but software limited to say 2Ghz. Want the extra 1Ghz? That will be $50 please!

So, whats next? I hard drive that can store 1Tb data, but software limited to 500Gb? BluRay movies where the extras are “extra”?

BT offering British broadband users free fiber upgrade

Got BT broadband at home? Don’t mind being tied to a new contract? Then BT have an offer for you – free fiber upgrades. What this will give you is fantastic speeds, but only 40Gb up/download limit a month! That is very low considering how fast you could use it up!

Read on Engadget

Facebook Places now launched in the UK

Launched last month in the USA, Facebook’s FourSquare killer application has launched for users in the UK. Currently availablethrough the Facebook iPhone application, you can check in to popular places to let your friends know where you are.

Facebook promise that this is secure and you can customize who sees what updates and locations. Hopefully this means people wont be able to scour Facebook to find your not home! Time to ensure your contents insurance is up to date I think

Read on BBC News

PlayStation 3 3D Update Rolled out delayed and now due in October.

PlayStation 3 users will soon get an update that will enable their machines to playback 3D Bluray movies. You will need a 3D TV to get the 3D out – so yet another £££’s to spend for the latest fad!

Read on Engadged

Yahoo trying to stay relevant

After years of loosing users and visitors Yahoo are rolling out a new look web mail system. They hope this will win users back from Google.

Read on ZDNET