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Mar 06 2009 5:44pm EDT

Last Bytes: Timepieces, Twitter, Real Estate, Audi

It's a phone! It's a watch! It's a watch-phone! Just in time for the end of conspicuous consumption on Wall Street, it's the limited edition Chairman. About that . . . now might be a better to dial back to a less flashy multi-tasking timepiece. LED calculator-watches, anyone? [Gizmodo]

Twitter credited for saving lives of missing skiiers. [All Things Digital]

At World For Sale, you can buy chunks of pretend real estate in exchange for actual money. Sorry -- Seattle, Sydney, London, Rio de Janiero and Hong Kong have already been snapped up but Akron, Ohio, is still available. And if that sounds good to you, I've got some beachfront property in Florida you've got to see. [PR Web]

Meet Vivek Kundra, named by President Obama to the post of chief information officer of the United States, making him the most powerful techno-guru in all the land. [New York Times]

Audi has the solution to Detroit's woes. Ditch cars. Go with shark hovercrafts. [Wired]

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