by Tom Kaneshige

Inside the Posh Pads of Tech’s Elite

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Jul 1, 20093 mins

Super-wired, super-plush and, of course, super-expensive: Check out the homes of Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff and their tech titan peers. Bernie Madoff's now-seized cribs had little on these palaces on land and sea when it comes to luxury.

Tale of the Tech Cribs

As Bernie Madoff shuffles off to prison for eternity, the government has busily been seizing the places he called home: a $7.5 million Manhattan penthouse apartment, a $7 million oceanfront house, another house in Palm Beach (pictured here). All of this got us thinking about the kinds of dwellings that technology’s rich and famous call home — and what those places say about their owners. So take our tour of some of the glitziest geek cribs.

The Social Networking President Goes to Washington

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First, he tapped Twitter to help him win the highest office in the land. Then he appointed the country’s first ever national CIO. We’re talking, of course, about President Obama. He and his family moved into new digs this spring — a 200-year-old, Georgian-style residence painted white. It’s even got an Oval Office so you can work from home, and a helicopter at the ready. Bonus: He also gets a very special BlackBerry.