If Ion Torrent is going to make headway in the market, it is going to need its speed.

FORBES: Life Tech Pushes Speed Of Small, Fast DNA Sequencer

"Drugs with advantageous safety profiles, in particular drugs that avoid daytime carryover, are not going to make headway with psychiatrists who as a group are prescribing Valium and Xanax during the daytime, " says Gary Richardson, a senior research scientist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

FORBES: The Next Ambien?

While Linux lacked the kind of support that Sun provides for Solaris, it was never going to make much headway running the applications that companies rely on for their core processes.

ECONOMIST: Sun Microsystems

The IRS has made big headway in going after tax cheaters who were hiding money through sophisticated trusts and corporations set up in Switzerland, Cayman Islands and other banking havens throughout the world.

FORBES: Tax Avoidance Legal For The Big Guys - Not So Much For Us