Best of the blogs: Which AJAX toolset would you use to develop a mobile application? Tom Yager is at Apple’s WWDC, and he shares some thoughts about that. In what Mr. Yager calls the perfect example, Apple CEO Steve Jobs “portrayed AJAX and Web 2.0 as models for the applications of the future, and he added gravity to his point by dropping the name of the 800-pound gorilla in the Web application business, salesforce.com.” Back to the mystery with which I began. Well, I’ll not spoil it for you, other than this little hint: Steve’s ideal iPhone app won’t run on an iPhone. Related: iPhone to support 3rd party widgets. Watch the video here. Columnist’s corner: Perhaps the bleaker aspects of Jean-Paul Sartre and other existentialist thinkers had a hand in this one, but our Off the Record author could just sense that a project he had undertaken was doomed from the onset. “It had been designed entirely in French!” Parlez-vous IT? No, is the answer in this CRM initiative demanded, of course, by the CEO. “I wasn’t aware that the CEO was negotiating a buyout from a larger vendor.” Endless meetings, pet projects, politics and nepotism all rear their ugly faces in this one. The news beat: Five Republican senators pen a letter asking for more hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee moves ahead with the Patent Reform Act. Sun Microsystems says its Solaris Express Developer Edition is tailored for multicore development to make it easy for developers to start building applications for the OS. And VMware moves closer to its Windows-on-a-Mac product, offering up pricing to match rival Parallels, and beginning to take pre-orders. Related Test Center Review: Parallels cozies up to Vista. Technology Industry