In Japan, Java ME technology-enabled cell phones use Near Field Communication to download info about trains you are about to ride on, by waving your phone in front of an info panel on the train. This way you can tell if you are going to Utsunomiya like you thought for your business meeting, or about to go to Nasu for a honeymoon dip in a hot spring.

See:

Stay on track with Java ME and Felica

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 On the telephone a Java application 
 is also required.  With the 
 application running a communications 
 session automatically begins when 
 the phone is brought within a 
 centimeter of a panel inside the 
 train.  Within a few seconds the 
 phone contains a wealth of 
 information about the train on 
 which the user is riding...

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Heh-heh. Poor, Vivek Jishtu. He posted a totally innocuous list in his view of the Top 10 Best Platforms for Mobile Development and he gets slashdotted. Lots of interesting comments to his blog post. Oh, by the way... Number 1 was "Java ME Technology". Natch. :-)

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Top 10 Best Platforms for Mobile Development

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 ...you can create an application 
 in no time at all [with Java ME]. 
 Plus deployment is also easy. 
 Overall its a great platform.  But 
 they really need to make things 
 easier for an average developer.

Hinkmond

Here's the lesson of the day. How do you sell your company for $8.1 billion? Step 1: Do something in the mobile market that's cool (like location-based stuff). Step 2: Write your SDK using Java ME technology (throw in a JSR, like JSR 179, Location-Based Services). Step 3: Sell your company to Nokia for $8.1 billion (that's billion, with a "B").

See that. Easy as pie...

See:

Easy as pie, sell your Java ME company for $8.1 billion

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 Navteq has been profitable 
 every quarter since going 
 public three years ago.  In 
 2006, Navteq earned $110 
 million on sales of $582 
 million.  The company, 
 founded in California in 
 1985, has 2,000 employees 
 and offers digital maps of 
 69 countries on six 
 continents

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