Amazon Unveil Frustration Free Packaging Initiative

Amazon have decided that they too are fed up with all the nearly impossible to open and environmentally unfriendly packaging that companies use. Their initiative to ship products in easy to open and dispose of environmentally friendly packaging is meeting with a lot of favour on a lot of tech blogs and also with users in general. I'm personally happy with this initiative because of my own frustration at the finger ripping plasic manufacturers tend to use in their packaging. Bravo Amazon, lets hope they aren't the last company to take this idea seriously.

Amazon Prepares to Sell DRM Free Music

According to The Times (UK), Amazon is setting up to challenge Apple with an offering of DRM free music via their online store. Amazon is apparently ready to launch next month, hopefully the content will be really DRM free rather than of a reduced variety. I'm watching, anyone else up for the competition...