Companies large and small, many that didn't even have e-mail a few years ago, are increasingly exploiting the Internet to reach new customers around the world fast - as well as to cut costs, shorten delivery time, and even re-engineer fundamental processes.

CNN: MIDDLEMEN, BEWARE

The construction of the plane has been plagued by problems - it is seven years behind schedule and has required numerous re-designs because of delays in software delivery and bulkhead cracks.

BBC: Grounded US F-35 fighter jet fleet to resume flights

Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.

ENGADGET: Adobe, NVIDIA and Broadcom bringing GPU acceleration to Flash at long last