Why Twitter outguns Facebook in Japan

Mark Zuckerberg may want more positive news from Japan, but it’s not likely to arrive any time soon.

With a mere two millionregistered Facebook users out of an online population of almost one hundred million, this represents a penetration of just 2% – meaning it’s among Facebook’s lowest performing markets.

Meet Samsung’s sexy new mini-camcorders

Samsung’s new HMX P100 and P300 debuted at CES earlier this month. The sexy, slim new mini-camcorder was designed by the Feiz studio, a Dutch design firm.

The “shoot and share camcorder” includes a built-in usb arm to easily upload to the web and microSD recording. It features ‘smart pause’ technology, which permits momentary pauses in filming before continuing to record in the same file, making it easier in post-production to edit footage.

The P100 has a backside-illuminated 5-megapixel CMOS sensor for better low-light recording, a fixed focal length f2.2 lens, and a 2.3-inch LCD with an 80-degree viewing angle.

Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur behind Threewords.me

When Mark Bao was a 5th grader, he wrote an app to help manage homework and sold it on floppy discs for $5 bucks a pop to his fellow students.