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The jury selected the NearSpeak app as one of the winners in the Windows Phone 8: Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge! Great news, and we’re very proud! This also means that we’ll be able to demonstrate the app at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. More details to follow soon. App development started at last… Continue reading NearSpeak Wins in Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge

If you’d like to learn more about NFC, make sure to listen to the upcoming webinar: “Lumia App Labs: Developing NFC apps in Windows Phone 8“. Over the course of one hour, I’ll show several examples of how to implement different NFC use cases with Windows Phone 8. The webinar will be repeated on the… Continue reading NFC for Windows Phone Webinar

Since its first release on September 10th, the NDEF Library for Proximity APIs has established itself as a must-have library for NFC developers working on Windows 8 and/or Windows Phone 8. So far, the open source lib has been downloaded more than 700 times, and is in use in major NFC apps, including Nfc Interactor,… Continue reading NDEF Library 1.0 Released!

Start into the new year by making your smartphone more efficient with Nfc Interactor 1.3 – the most versatile NFC tag reader / writer app just got more powerful. With a simple tap of an NFC tag, you can now: Launch 22 WP8 system apps (including alarms or even Bing Maps – otherwise hidden on… Continue reading Launch 22 System Apps + 36 Settings Pages: Nfc Interactor 1.3

Today, I’ve added four new frequently asked questions to the FAQ section. Please let me know if you have any other topics that should be handled there or if something is unclear! How to disable the phone’s NFC prompts? What is the use of the record’s ID? How to delete existing contents of tags? Multiple… Continue reading New FAQs for NFC

Just in time for Christmas, the NearSpeak 1.1 update is live in the Store. The perfect time to leave a surprising voice message full of love for your partner, hidden on a high-tech NFC tag. Giving away a Windows Phone 8 as a present? Record your voice message on a tag instead of using a… Continue reading NearSpeak – Christmas Update

The NFC Developer Comparison document has just been updated to version 1.1, with more accurate comments and several new items added – again, special thanks to Michael Roland, one of the world’s top NFC specialists! New sections: Peer-to-peer: NPP Tags: ISO 14443-3 / 4 separation, FeliCa Software card emulation The comparison spreadsheet contains valuable details… Continue reading Updated NFC Developer Comparison – More Android Details

I’ve written and published two new developer articles for NFC, both of them with detailed and helpful information that is often difficult to find for NFC developers! How to Store Application Data on NFC Tags Compares different ways of storing application data on NFC tags, also considering the ability to launch apps and cross-platform compatibility.… Continue reading Two New Developer Tutorials

Nfc Interactor v1.2 just passed QA and is now online in the Windows Phone 8 store! Changing System Settings One of the most requested features was to be able to change system settings – thanks for your feedback! While actually changing settings from an NFC tag or an app is not allowed by the strong… Continue reading WP8 Settings and Nfc Interactor 1.2

NFC tags that send SMS messages are frequently used in many scenarios. For example, tags at public transport stations in Helsinki allow buying a ticket or getting schedule information with a simple tap of an NFC tag. The phone sends a message to the service, which then replies directly to the user. Until now, when… Continue reading Extending Windows Phone 8 with NFC SMS Support