Apr 06
About half an hour ago, NORAD sent out an ominous looking tweet with the words "NORAD jets intercept…" and a link. The only problem? If you clicked on the link it brought you to an FAA error page with no more information.
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Dec 24
The North American Aerospace Defense Command directs its super sensitive equipment to track Santa Claus every year, its sort of a tradition now, one that’s bound to be loved by kids all around the world. The world of technology and intelligence is full of competition so it doesn’t really come as a surprise that there’s a new service out there that directly competes with NORAD’s Santa tracker. Google has thrown its hat in the ring as well, developed a Santa tracker of its own with Google Maps baked right into it, allowing people to see exactly where in the world Santa and his reindeers are spreading joy.
Initially Google launched the Santa Tracker game earlier this month, it remains live even now. The tracker, however, went live recently and lets people track him wherever he might be in the world. Through Santa’s dashboard, they can also see what his next location is going to be be. Google’s Santa tracker is accessible through a web browser, there’s also an app for Android devices. If you’re one of the lucky few who have their hands on a Google Glass, there’s a Santa tracker app available for it as well, which shows notifications about his movements in Glass’ heads up display.
Google Launches Its Own Santa Tracker original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 03
The holidays are all about traditions, and once again NORAD is back with an updated version of its Santa tracker
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Dec 03
NORAD Tracks Santa Again This Year
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We have brought you word about NORAD’s Santa Claus tracker a few years back, and this time around, this software is back yet again – although this time around, it has made the official jump over to the world of tablets. In fact, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) as a defense agency has decided to work with Microsoft on an updated web-based tracker which will specially work best on web browsers that play nice with touchscreen displays, where among them include Internet Explorer 11, of course. This latest site would let you keep tabs on where Santa Claus is headed to, as you get to spin a globe coded with WebGL using nothing but your finger alone.
Apart from that, you will also have the ability to make a call over to NORAD using Skype so that you will be able to gain additional information on the most recent sighting of Santa and his sleigh (not to mention his merry bunch of reindeer, too). Apart from that, there is no need to play the patience card since Microsoft has already promised that you will be treated to games, movies and music on a daily basis using this particular NORAD Santa Tracker. Windows 8 and Windows Phone users are also able to check it out via their respective native tracking apps.
NORAD Tracks Santa Again This Year original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 26
The Daily Roundup for 12.26.2012
Posted in: Today's Chili 
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Dec 24
Santa is already in action in Asia and Europe. Where is he exactly? NORAD will tell you on this lovely Christmas Eve. More »
Dec 24
Few things in this world will reaffirm your holiday spirit faster than watching a dozen or so uniformed service people cover a room in Christmas wrapping. Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who’s anxiously scratching on the door to get in. It’s a strangely Snow White-esque moment that unfolds minutes after we set up our gear in the conference room of the Leadership Development Center — a drab, unassuming office space in the middle of Colorado Springs’ Peterson Air Force Base that serves as a training facility for 11 months out of the year. But now, in early December, there’s a transformation occurring, as men and women in various shades of camouflage paper the space with Christmas spirit in record time.
For one month a year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) converts this area into holiday central for NORAD’s Santa Tracker, a half-century-old program that has become a thing of legend — a curious juxtaposition of warfare preparedness and storybook magic. It’s one that, somehow fittingly, is rooted in a mistake — a phone number misprinted in a 1955 Sears catalog, prompting local children to call Santa’s “private number.” Those calls from excited boys and girls were routed, the legend goes, to the big red phone in the war room of NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), where quick-thinking Col. Harry Shoup asked his troops to play along. Now, 57 years later, it’s a massive undertaking, as volunteers in military garb and Santa hats answer calls from children in hundreds of countries.
Continue reading A visit to NORAD’s Santa-tracking facility (video)
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