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Monday, December 24, 2012

Where's Santa? Track Him Live from Bolingbrook!

The North American Aerospace Defense Command has a website that now offers a Santa tracker mobile app to follow the jolly man's magical flight.

Santa has started his journey around the world, and you can track him in real time as he delivers gifts around the world on Christmas Eve. It's all thanks to the folks behind the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) website. The tradition started in 1955 after an advertisement for Sears Roebuck & Co. misprinted a telephone number for a special "Santa hotline." Instead of reaching Kris Kringle, the number put kids through to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Commander-in-Chief’s operations, according to a description on the NORAD Tracks Santa Facebook page, which has more than one million "likes." In addition to keeping tabs on Santa's whereabouts, there is plenty to do on NORAD's Santa-tracking site. Check out Kids' …

Saturday, December 24, 2011

NORAD Tracks Santa: Follow St. Nick's Christmas Eve Journey Online or with Mobile Apps

NORAD will continue a more than 50-year tradition on Dec. 24, following along as Santa and his reindeer make their global trek.

In the age of smartphones, tablet computers, Facebook and Twitter, tracking Santa has gone high-tech. Every year, NORAD follows Santa Claus as he makes his trek around the globe, alerting children all over the world to his progress. Now, kids of all ages can follow along online or using mobile apps available in the Apple App Store or the Android Market. Families can track Santa in Google Earth, or call 1-800-HI-NORAD (1-877 446-6723) to talk with a volunteer who will tell kids where Santa is on his trip. NORAD Tracks Santa also has a Facebook page and Twitter stream to keep kids around the world up to date on Santa’s progress, not to mention a YouTube channel chock full of videos of his Dec. 24 adventures. How do they do it? Just how does …

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