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The New York Times pats Amazon on the back for linking to rivals like eToys within their Toy storefront.

iPhone/iPod touch only: Amazon released a new mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch today, ensuring that you can now get your online shopping fix no matter where you are.

PicClick is a web-based shopping search engine that scours eBay and Amazon and returns results in thumbnail format. Instead of scrolling through long and rather linear pages of search results you can quickly scan over a whole page of results with the price, image, and with eBay auctions the time left. You specify keywords, minimum and maximum price, zip code for proximity, and the size of the thumbnails, which is adjustable with a slider.

Mac OS X 10.5 only: If you enjoy searching for music in the iTunes Music Store but would rather buy DRM-free MP3s encoded in a higher bit rate, then check out Advantageous, a script for iTunes 8. Once you've downloaded and installed the package, just click the script icon and select Get MP3 from Amazon while viewing a track listing in iTunes.

We've never been fans of the impossible-to-open packaging holding us twenty tedious steps away from satisfying our gadget lust (surprised?), but apparently neither is Amazon. To address the issue, Amazon has launched a Frustration-Free Packaging storefront:

The new Amazon Windowshop multimedia marketplace does fancy 3D browsing of the popular online commerce site. Aside from the eye candy, features also include multimedia previews of any item, like movie trailers, song clips, and audiobook previews. It's not much for searching, but if you've got a hankering for some window shopping, it's surprisingly fun.

Among the highlights from Gizmodo's live coverage of the Google Android launch: The T-Mobile G1/Dream will include a DRM-free, iTunes-like MP3 store from Amazon, touting 6 million songs. It also promises push Gmail, MS Office doc support, and launches commercially Oct. 22.

LH reader Neal found out the hard way that mega-e-tailer Amazon no longer honors its Post-Order Price Guarantee, which refunded customers any discounts that happened within 30 days of purchase.

Amazon's streaming TV and movie rental and download service, Video on Demand, is out of beta and now publicly available. Hop on over to stream a few free episodes of 30 Rock and Heroes now.

Online superstore Amazon adds an Amazon Green section, which lists products customers have selected as most environmentally-friendly, from cleaning supplies to computers to personal solar chargers.