CNET News.com has an article on the court battle between Random House and RosettaBooks. According to the article, Random House sued RosettaBooks to prevent the smaller publisher from selling digital versions of Random House titles by authors William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robert Parker.

ZDNet has the complete lowdown on the Palm m505.

Handspring is offering a $50 rebate on the Visor Platinum, bringing the price down to $249.

The CLIE N710C is available from SonyStyle.com. The device has 8MB of memory, 4MB of flash, runs Palm OS 3.5, has a 320 x 320 color screen, weighs 5.6 oz, and is priced at $499.99. It also has a built-in MP3 audio player.

Palm has issued a press release stating The University of South Dakota of Vermillion announced it will provide Palm handheld computers to all first-year undergraduate students as well as first-year law and medical school students.

MobiMate has released PhoneMate 1.5, designed to allow users to quickly lookup or beam contact information as well as dial a GSM mobile phone.

AvantGo, Inc. and CCP global announced that the two companies have teamed up to deliver educational services to Fortune 1000 customers standardizing on AvantGo’s wireless infrastructure software.

DataViz, Inc. announced a new educational pricing schedule for its Palm OS products. This line of products includes Documents To Go Professional Edition and Desktop To Go.

Forbes.com on Sony’s second-generation CLIE handheld saying Sony has learned some lessons for its second run at the market for Palm devices.

CNET News.com reports Palm Chief Financial Officer Judy Bruner said that the latest numbers from PC Data show that the company’s sales at U.S. stores in April were down about 20 percent from those in January.