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Infectious, a startup we covered earlier this year that creates tough vinyl stickers for people who want to customize their cars, now offers the same product for walls, laptops and iPhones. For $10 you can change your phone into a piece of art. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/05/if-customizing-your-car-with-infectious-is-too-big-a-job-start-with-your-iphone-instead 12/5)

Amazon.com has launched an iPhone/iPod Touch application to streamline browsing and shopping on its site. The application includes an “Amazon Remembers” service, which lets users identify products they’d like to buy by saving a photo of the product taken using the iPhone’s camera, with the pics stored on both the app and Amazon’s Web site. San Francisco Chronicle/SF Unzipped blog (12/4)

Flickr has released a new version of its mobile site that affords several new features, most notably the ability to stream video clips up to 90-seconds in length. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/flickr-revamps-mobile-site-adds-video-streaming-support 12/4)

Virgin Mobile USA rolled out two new features for prepaid and conventional customers. “Connect” is a new social networking dashboard designed to give Helio members (recently acquired by Virgin) access to the latest updates from popular social media and networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. “Mobile Lounge,” provides a social network for Virgin Mobile USA customers to share ideas and opinions, offering microblogging capabilities, discussion boards, chat rooms, profile creation and contests. (Cynopsis 12/5)

SK Telecom has struck a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) to launch the original shortform digital series Sorority Forever on its mobile platform in Korea. The series is available to SKT users via the Nate and June services on their mobile devices. (Cynopsis 12/5)