Neowin News Feed for: Santa

Use these Santa Trackers to keep an eye on your gifts this Christmas Eve

Aditya Tiwari — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:06:01 +0000

2025's Christmas Eve is almost here, with kids and adults eagerly waiting for their gifts. Here's how you can track Santa's journey across the globe as he delivers gifts to countless homes. Read more...

How to track Santa's journey this Christmas Eve while you wait for the gifts

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:02:01 +0000

2024's Christmas Eve is here with children and grown-ups eagerly waiting for the gifts. Here is how you can track Santa's journey across the globe as he delivers gifts to countless homes. Read more...

Microsoft's Bing Maps to supply satellite imagery for NORAD Santa tracker

Paul Hill — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has partnered with NORAD to supply Bing Maps imagery in NORAD's Santa tracker. Families will be able to track the location of Santa from Christmas Eve and learn about the visited places. Read more...

Bill Gates is once again a Redditor's Secret Santa

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:24:01 +0000

Bill Gates came back to Reddit this holiday season to be someone's Secret Santa. And just like in previous years, the gift recipient was excited and amazed when she came to find out about this. Read more...

Microsoft's Cortana, Bing, Edge, Maps and Azure teams come together to help track Santa

Andy Weir — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:11:10 +0000

Teams from across Microsoft have been working together to make NORAD's Santa-tracker more fun and engaging than ever before, with a wide range of festive features for kids of all ages. Read more...

Santa hops aboard Virgin Atlantic flight in mid-air (with a little help from Microsoft)

Andy Weir — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:16:02 +0000

Microsoft teamed up with Virgin Atlantic to surprise passengers by helping Santa to 'board' their flight, with a little help from some Windows 8.1 tablets and a few carefully concealed projectors. Read more...

Microsoft's most ambitious cross platform service … tracks Santa

Brad Sams — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:00:50 +0000

For the past few years, Microsoft has been tracking Santa on his journey on December 24th but this year, Microsoft is taking it up a notch to track the jolly man on his journey. Read more...

Apple's new iPhone 4S-Siri TV ad helps Santa Claus

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:51:12 +0000

A new holiday themed TV commercial from Apple shows that Santa Claus can also benefit from using the Siri voice recognition software that's a part of the iPhone 4S. Read more...

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from Neowin

Brian Blasius — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:58:19 +0000

From all the staff at Neowin, we wish you a safe and happy holiday! We've got some reviews and guides lined up throughout the day, that'll showcase some of the more popular presents many may receive.... Read more...

Santa switches to Google Voice

Brandon Boyce — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:19:29 +0000

If there is one person to keep up with this time of year, it's Santa. Everyone is always wondering; what smartphone is he using to communicate with his elves, what tablet is he using to... Read more...

NORAD tracks Santa Claus thanks to Google, others

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:55:25 +0000

Starting on Monday, December 24th, at 1 am PST, you can watch Santa Claus fly making his yearly world round trip. Thanks to NORAD and partners Google, AGI, Verizon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Official Santa Mail,... Read more...

Microsoft kills Santa Claus

Steven Parker — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:47:03 +0000

Microsoft has killed Santa Claus today, after an unsatisfactory attempt to restrain the North Pole-based jolly old elf from instant messaging children about oral sex. Although Redmond has been challenged by compassion in the past,... Read more...

HP launches low-priced Santa Rosa consumer notebook

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:13:58 +0000

Hewlett-Packard (HP) on May 10 launched three Centrino Pro/Duo (Santa Rosa-based) notebooks in the Taiwan market, including one consumer model that is priced among the lowest levels of Santa Rosa models currently available in Taiwan.... Read more...

Santa IM Worm Hits AOL, MSN and Yahoo

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:19:50 +0000

A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim's computer. The IM.GiftCom.All worm... Read more...

NORAD gears up to track Santa

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 25 Dec 2002 07:12:32 +0000

Despite President Bush's formal go-ahead on the first phase of missile defense deployment, the coast is clear for the time being on the entry of Santa Claus into American air space. According... Read more...

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz driver 5.12.4161

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:27:22 +0000

Thanks Matthey for the heads up here on this new driver. Voyetra has released a better driver for the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card. What's new in 5.12.4161: ... Read more...

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Drivers Win2K/XP!

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:18:25 +0000

Turtle Beach have released some new Windows 2000/XP beta drivers v.4159 for theSanta Cruz sound card. No word on what's new though. News source: Warp2Search Download: ... Read more...