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The Pirate Bay will move away from the BitTorrent protocol within the next 12 months, one of the site's admins has announced in a video interview. The Pirate Bay is actively developing its own, yet-to-be-named P2P protocol that will feature added security measures to foil spammers and other enhancements. The team is said to already have a working software in place but is still hammering out the details of the protocol itself, which will be open source.

CRM (customer relationship management) software has exploded in popularity in recent years, and there are probably many web workers who have already used popular applications such as Salesforce.com. However, Salesforce.com and other on-demand (Web-based) CRM applications cost money, even though there are some perfectly good applications available for free.

If you're a Microsoft Outlook user and a Google Calendar or GMail user (I use all three) did you know that you can synchronize your GMail Contacts and Google Calendar with Outlook, saving you from having to jump between multiple applications all the time? The process is very easy, and also free. In this post, I'll provide instructions for how to do both tasks.

NBC Universal (GE) President Jeff Zucker wants more technological solutions to be used in the battle to combat piracy, and is specifically calling on ISPs, video-sharing sites, universities and others to implement better filtering systems. But until - and even if - that happens, content companies will have to rely on the services of copyright monitoring and enforcement services like BayTSP.

Amazon (AMZN), I have often pointed out, is a harbinger of technology trends that eventually gain mainstream acceptance. Contextual matching of information and community-powered feedback and ratings systems are two such examples.