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There is one day a year that NORAD lets its hair down so to speak to provide an important service to the citizens of the world. On December 24th, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) uses all the tools at its disposal to track the progress of Santa Claus and his reindeer!

NORAD will once again be teaming up with Google to allow users to watch Santa as he travels around the globe, all in 3D thanks to the Google Earth service. Guided by Rudolphs famous red nose, Google Earth will have Santas location on lock and will offer a visual play-by-play as St.

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Amazon on Thursday evening launched early Black Friday pricing on three of Apple’s most affordable Mac offerings: the 1.60GHz 11″ MacBook Air, 2.4GHz dual 13″ MacBook Pro, and 2.5GHz 21.5″ iMac.

In each case, the prices are the lowest seen yet on the particular models and are believed to be below wholesale cost. They’re also far steeper discounts than Apple will offer its customers through its own store early Friday morning.

In particular, the 1.60GHz 11″ MacBook Air 64GB drops from $999 to $849.99, the 2.4GHz dual 13″ MacBook Pro from $1,999.00 to $1,049.99 and the 2.5GHz 21.5″ iMac from $1,199.00 to $1,049.99.

A full breakdown of the latest Mac Prices can be seen below or in AppleInsider’s Mac Price Guide — lowest prices are in bold font. Read all post…

The turkey carcass won’t be the only thing picked over during the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend. A new study shows that this will be the biggest year yet for mobile shopping in the U.S. on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with an estimated 60 million consumers planning on using their mobile devices to shop over the holiday weekend. M

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Just a heads up to all our more vocal readers: were turning off Disqus, which we use for the comment system here on Electricpig, for the weekend at 5pm. Dont worry: nobodys been bad. Were just doing some fiddling with the servers behind the scenes (maintenance and all that), and itll be back in operation on Monday at 9am. See you on the other side, and in the meantime, heres some reading for the weekend for you:

• Why Android fans should be glad Flash is dead
• I want to love Lovefilm but I cant
• Two incredible iOS 5 secrets you dont need to jailbreak for