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it's Monday December 5th 2011 I'm Kara Tsuboi filling in for Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded according to a new study from JP Morgan while ATT was the original iPhone carrier it is verizon that is now making out the best in 2012 verizon is expected to add 1.2 million new iphone accounts more than double of what's expected for 80 new kids sprint who just got on the iPhone bandwagon this fall is only predicted to gain 250,000 new users next year but that sure does beat out t-mobile who is expected to lose 400,000 accounts next year most likely due to people switching over to the iphone the xbox 360 gets a big update tomorrow the interface revamp will include the addition of around 40 media channels of live and on-demand TV content the update will also introduce tiles similar to windows phone 7 Bing search is another new feature that will let users find content across all tiles using voice with kinect xbox bing martin scorsese gold members of xbox live can use any xbox 360 machine by logging in through their gamertag 360 owners in the US Canada and the UK should get a notice for the free update tomorrow and maybe tomorrow's updates spurred Xbox 360 console sales for November Wedbush analyst Michael patra says 360 sales reached one point four four million units just last month surprisingly the we sold one point oh five million and the PlayStation came in with 750,000 units sold Microsoft reportedly had a record week of sales during black friday selling close to a million xbox 360 machines in just that week and the browser Wars Google may have delivered a potentially fatal blow to Mozilla the maker of Firefox for the last several years google has been paying Mozilla one dollar a placement to have that little Google search box at the top of each browser window that totals 100 million dollars a year or more than eighty percent of Mozilla's total revenue as of last month according to ZDNet that deal ended with no plans of renewal with Google's own browser Chrome growing a popularity it's no wonder they want to keep their resources closer to home Tech insiders across the pond are putting money on Facebook partnering with real casinos according to the United Kingdom's Daily Mail the social media companies and talks and negotiations with online gambling sites like game sis and 888 an editor for a gaming review has said that's a win-win quote Facebook is looking for new revenue streams and the gambling industry is looking for new markets end quote Facebook has its poker face on and has not denied nor confirmed those talks those are headlines for today I'm cars tsuboi for cnet com