Leica has gotten a lot of press in the last few days between the record-breaking auction of a 1923 Series-0 camera for nearly $3 million , to the announcement of a digital rangefinder that shoots only in black and white: the 18-megapixel Leica M Monochrom ($7,950). Reading these reports including what we’ve written here on Imaging Resource , I must admit my initial reaction was bafflement, followed by sadness
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The Leica M Monochrom: Is Leica Pricing Out Its Loyal Customers with an $8,000 Black-and-White Camera?
Apple could be just days away from buying German TV-maker Loewe, according to reports. Any acquisition would surely mean Apple has found its partner to build the forthcoming iTV 
It’s been well over a month now since Apple suspended push email from its iCloud and MobileMe services, and it doesn’t look like it will be switching them back on any time soon. 
For better or worse, our week in the frigid German city of Hannover has come to a close, bringing with it the end of this locale’s days-long tourist season. 
Before you’ve even sipped your morning brew, a regional German court has delivered yet another stern judgement affecting a multinational organization. 
Where is Hannover, you ask? Well it’s definitely in Germany — of that much we’re sure. This town certainly isn’t a tourist haven, save for a week in March when tech pros from every continent arrive and grow the city beyond its typical community of 500,000, but CeBIT is among the world’s largest tech trade shows, and it’s the sole purpose for our brief jaunt to Kansas City’s sister metro. 
For Beyond Oblivion , the end (see: tomorrow) is nigh — the sun is setting on the service, the curtains are drawing close on its operations and that final, flickering flame of funding is about to be extinguished. 
We’ve already had an early peek at Facebook’s yet-to-be-released Messenger client for Windows, and now you can give it a shot yourself courtesy of a leaked copy that’s turned up on the TechIT website. Not much in the way of surprises here, but if you’re the sort that prefers desktop applications to websites or mobile apps, you’ll be glad to know that it provides access to not just Facebook chat, but status updates and notifications from your friends as well. You can find the download at the source link below (Windows 7 is required). 
It’s hard to set much store by early sales performance, particularly after the evergreen 3DS faced such a rocky road . 
Yes, the Verzo Kinzo is real ! That Americano-Czech Android smartphone with mid-range specs that went on sale in November with a ludicrous $459 price tag only to be hastily relaunched earlier this month for a slightly more digestible $359 is not a giant farce. (Well, maybe it is.) It left the ethereal world of rendered computer graphics and landed in our mitts just in time for the holidays. 
