This article from CNET summarize the proposed legislation (there's a link to the PDF file) that would restrict the FCC's powers to regulate broadband.

Don't pay attention to the politics in  this Washington Post article, "Old Technology Foils Schwarzenegger's Wage Order," but skip to the bottom of the first page for this quote:

The state's payroll system was designed more than 60 years ago and was last revamped in 1970, Hallye Jordan, state controller's office spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

A beta version of Flash for mobile devices is on the way according to Stephen Shankland on CNET.

It will be available for a number of platforms but, notably, not Apple's mobile devices (iOS). It addresses some of the issues of moving to a non-mouse environment and deals with power issues. Some developers will still need rewriting to adopt it.

I'm sure Apple's argument will be "If you need to rewrite anyway, why not move to HTML5 which is an open standard."