Atelier announced it is now shipping SimCity for Palm Computing connected organizers. The city simulator is the full-featured version of game from Maxis, an Electronic Arts company, tailored to run on Palm connected organizers.

News.com has this story on Microsoft’s announcement that it will team up with Japanese company NTT Mobile Communications Network. The new venture, called Mobimagic, will allow NTT DoCoMo customers retrieve files from office or home personal computers over the phone, read email, and view calendars and schedulers Windows CE.

Having trouble carrying around your cell phone, handheld device, and pager without looking like you’re wearing the utility belt Adam West wore in Batman? CNN has this article on how several clothes companies are designing pants so you can carry everything in your pockets.

Here’s a story from PC Week on wireless applications that were shown at PalmSource. The article says that Open Sky will be launching a flat-rate wireless Internet service next month, ThinAirApps.com is adding Notes and Exchange access to its ThinAirMail application, and JP Systems is licensing its wireless technology to Palm Computing and Open Sky.

Lotus Development announced the shipment of Mobile Services for Domino (MSD) Release 1.0. MSD 1.0 allows Notes and Domino users to send and receive messages and access their Domino server-based information from small, mobile devices using global wireless data networks.

Socket Communications announced the first U.S. shipments of the Digital Phone Card Data Connection Kit. The Digital Phone Card is a plug-in card that offers connectivity between a data-capable PCS phone and any mobile computer powered by Microsoft’s Windows CE, Windows 9x or Windows NT operating systems.

ZDNN has this story from The Wall Street Journal on Microsoft’s X-Box, a video game console currently in development. The article says that Microsoft isn’t using Windows CE in the device.

Odyssey Software announced support for Vadem’s latest edition to the Clio PC companion line of Microsoft Windows CE-based devices. Odyssey Software’s CEfusion is designed for developing mobile applications that require reliable access to enterprise data over wireless, wired, or dial-up connections. CEfusion’s integration with the Microsoft Windows CE Toolkits for the Visual Basic and Visual C++ development systems helps developers leverage existing knowledge of Microsoft’s desktop development tools.

News.com is reporting that Microsoft is investing a lot of money and time to develop a home video game system, code named X-Box.

Did you see Palm Computing’s new commercial yet? CNN has, and according to this article, it’s aimed right at consumers.