Slap your Treo into a credit card swiper with portable printer and put Aircharge J2ME software on your cell phone and you've got yourself a nifty little wireless credit card processing device.

NOTE: Also see Darryl Mocek's blog post from yesterday on USA ePay J2ME card swiper. Darryl is across the building from me in the same J2ME CDC group. :-)

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J2ME cell phone as a credit card processing device

I got an idea. Stand outside the local In-and-Out Burger drive-through and wear one of their uniforms, then carry around this device and take their orders from the cars lining up before they get to the window. Of course, you should only do that only if you're an employee of the place! :-) Sheesh! You gotta watch what you say on these blogs, huh! A lot of hackers are out there wanting to take your money. Watch, next time you're at In-and-Out Burger, you'll be looking at the person taking your order to see if he/she is trying to spoof to take your credit card.

Rand McNally (those wacky map makers) and TeleCommunication Systems have teamed up to produce a J2ME technology-enabled app for you cell phone that maps the current traffic conditions.

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J2ME technology-enabled Rand McNally Traffic Report

A good, fast way to check the traffic before you head out in your Toyota Prius hybrid to take on 101 North to San Francisco from Silicon Valley. Or, if you were hopping on a Honda CBR1000F, you probably wouldn't care one way or another since you'd either split lanes or cruise all the way up in the car pool lane if there was any traffic. :-)

Mapit in Malaysia has a new Java technology-based app that is a location-based mapping program for your Malaysian J2ME cell phone. A good way to find your way from KL to Negeri Sembilan... that is, if you happen to be going from KL to Negeri Sembilan. ;-)

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Mapit Location-Based Mapping Program

The article talks about 20% of the 13 million cell phones in Malaysia being Java-enabled. I'm thinking the numbers actually should be higher than that. But, it might be that Malaysia has more of the older higher-volume low-end cell phones that aren't powerful enough to run J2ME technology. If you look here in the U.S., every phone advertised in the paper is J2ME technology-enabled. It might take a couple of years for other countries to also have closer to 100% of their high-volume phones to all have Java technology. But, that trend is happening now.

J2ME technology-enabled cell phones in Japan and South Korea will have new motion sensing chips on them to allow physical interaction with J2ME enabled games and apps.

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Shake, rattle and roll your J2ME cell phones

You can swing your cell phone around to hit a golf ball in a golfing game. Or, steer yourself on skiis by moving your J2ME cell phone handset around in the air.

Cool! What's next? Motion controlled dialing from your cell phone? Hey, what are you doing swinging your cell phone around your head like a lunatic? Calling my voicemail, of course! :-)