Fictionwise.com has launched it’s annual battle of the Summer Movie eBooks. This year, it’s the Hulk duking it out with the X-Men. Receive a 100% Micropay Rebate on either title when purchasing with a credit card through May 8. You can follow the fight on the Fictionwise home page, which displays a real-time graph of the download results.

PN Technologies announced the availability of a new type of carrying case for Sony Clie PDAs. There cases are available for PEG-TG50, PEG-T665C, PEG-T665, PEG-T615, PEG-T415, PEG-SJ33, PEG-SJ30, PEG-SJ22, PEG-SJ20, PEG-T415, PEG-N710C, and PEG-SL10. The case is made of soft rubber, so that it can absorb shocks.

Telef=F3nica M=F3viles Espa=F1a (TME), Telef=F3nica M=F3viles Group’s operator on the Spanish market, unveiled Blackberry from MoviStar, a new wireless platform designed to provide companies with secure, always-on mobile email/data access and phone capabilities via BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds.

Mazingo announced full support for the Zire 71 as well as Tungsten devices. To celebrate the launch, Mazingo is offering a 60% discounted promotion for Palm OS users. The Mazingo Mobile Entertainment Package includes one year of Mazingo service along with a Lexar 6-in-1 card reader for fast synchronization. For a limited time only, a full year of Mazingo service will be available for only $94.95 along with a Lexar 6-in-1 card reader for $24.95.

The typical Domino URL can be confusing as they use long strings of hexidecimal that are impossible to identify just by looking at them. Most Web Traffic Reporting tools can’t figure out what they really mean. Some tools resort to making additions to the design of your site, which can make site maintenance a chore. A new solution has bee released called Workflo!Log Analyzer. It’s designed to understand and interpret the confusing Domino URLs. Instead of hexidecimal strings, you see view names, database titles, and customizable info from your documents like their title or subject. You can trace how a user has reached your site, the sequence of pages they hit, how long they sat on each page, and how long it took to load the page.

CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES announced that high-technology sales executive Carmen Parisi has joined the company as vice president of sales and business development. Parisi will be responsible for the market development of the company

Neoware Systems, Inc.# announced the introduction of ThinPC, a software application designed to enable customers to extend the benefits of thin client appliance computing to personal computers. The new software provides access to server-based applications with no additional investment in desktop hardware by transforming PCs into centrally managed thin clients.

Palm, Inc. announced that Todd Bradley, Palm Solutions Group president and chief executive officer, will present at the JP Morgan Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, May 8, at 3:30 p.m. ET. A live webcast and archive of the presentation will be available to the public on Palm’s Web site in the Investor Relations section.

Continuing economic stagnation affected the worldwide PDA market as shipments totaled 2.8 million units in the first quarter of 2003, an 11.1 percent decline from the same period last year, according to preliminary statistics from Gartner, Inc. In the first quarter of 2002, worldwide PDA shipments totaled 3.2 million.

Palm held onto the top spot in the worldwide rankings with 32.8 percent of PDA shipments. Although Palm shipped more that twice the units of its nearest competitor, its market share continued to decline. Hewlett-Packard remained in the Number 2 spot with 16 percent of the market, followed by Sony, with market share of 13.3 percent. Toshiba and Sony showed the strongest growth among the top-tier vendors with growth rates of 276 percent and 60 percent, respectively.

Verizon Wireless and Vindigo unveiled MovieGoer, a movie guide for wireless phones. Verizon Wireless customers with Get It Now(SM)-capable phones can download the guide over the air to look up movie information including show times, reviews, and directions to the nearest theater.