Apps: Much like quarterback Joe Namath boldly proclaiming that his underdog New York Jets would beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says that his company, in its ‘Salesforce 2.0’ incarnation, is going to take on Microsoft as a development platform provider. Columnist’s corner: After accepting a network support job in the District Attorney’s office of a major city our Off the Record author found the place such a shambles that not only were all home directories open and available but, worse, nearly every PC was loaded with Napster. A letter to the boss didn’t accomplish much and, in fact, it wasn’t until 4 months later, when someone else noticed, that IT was called and had to argue with lawyers. Plot twist: the moral of the story is not, as one might presume, to avoid working for attorneys.Security: Then again, with the dark cloud of threatened legal action over its head, IOActive cancelled a talk at Black Hat that its researcher Chris Paget planned to give about RFID security and secure card maker HID in specific. This is one story that’s sure to keep unfolding… The news beat: Firefox 3.0, due later this year, will bring a handful of new features including offline support for Web applications and improved search capabilities, according to Mozilla. Symantec’s vice president of technology Robert Clyde says that the U.S. Congress must pass a data breach notification bill that could help combat identity theft. And open source database vendor Ingres releases Icebreaker which it describes as a tight coupling of the database with only those components of rPath’s Linux distribution needed to run Ingres. Software Development