Great news for all of you BlackBerry Bold, Storm and 8900 users! WHERE has just released an update for those phones with some great new enhancements. Update or download WHERE in the BlackBerry App World today.

Some of the new features include:

New Gas Features - The WHERE Gas widget got a total redesign in this update. All gas grade prices are now available on main screen. Gas station amenities are now also included on the station detail page.

Improvements to WHERE Wall - In this latest update you will notice larger gravatar images, auto re-fresh mechanism, the ability to add links into posts, and a new Sports wall.

Changes to the way location is handled

Other minor bug fixes.

As always we appreciate your feedback. If you are having issues or have suggestions for the WHERE BlackBerry Team email us at bbsuport@ulocate.com

The Palm Pre is the hottest ticket out there right now? So sleek, smart and sexy. So, quit being a wallflower and ask the Pre out on a date! Yes, we are serious! Get out your best pick up lines, sweet talk, chocolate & flowers to win a chance to have a Palm Pre to live happily ever after with.

BONUS: Tell us how you would use the WHERE app to plan the date for extra brownie points.

The Rules: Two ways to Enter

Video:
Upload a Upload. Be as romantic, silly, or serious as you need be to win the heart of this Palm Pre. Winner will be selected by the WHERE Team. Video will be judged on creativity, originality and overall appeal.

Upload the video to YouTube, Facebook or MySpace and place the URL of the video in the comments section of the EverythingPre.com, PreCentral, or Pinstack post.

Love Letter:
Write your beloved Palm Pre a love letter about why it should go on out a date with you and leave the letter (in it’s entirety) in the comments section of the EverythingPre.com or PreCentral or Pinstack post.

Winner will be selected by the WHERE Team. All entries will be judged on creativity, originality and overall appeal.

Contest will run from June 24 through July 2nd 2009, Winner will be selected and notified by July 6th, 2009. Upon announcement, winner will provide WHERE with name, mailing address and email for prize delivery. Please allow 6-8 weeks for shipment.

It's been just over 10 days since Palm released it’s new smartphone, the Palm Pre. Reports state that Palm sold over 100k devices in the first week. WHERE was featured in the app store as one of the original 19 apps available to Palm Pre users.

In the last 10 days WHERE has been downloaded 46,435 times making it the 3rd most downloaded application in the app catalog!

Here are what users are saying about WHERE on the Palm Pre:

“Works great! Like having 5 apps + in 1 with weather, gas stations, news, yellow pages, and even a starbucks locator! Great app. Def a must have.”

“This is the best app on the pre. Updated version rocks.”

“Great all in one app. I deleted a few other ones cuz this took care of them all.”

“Works great! I’ve used it everyday since I downloaded it… This is a must-have. Trust me it is worth it.”

“Love this app. I had a customer who asked me for our phone book the other day (which we don’t have) So I used WHERE and I found everything they needed plus a phone number and directions. How awesome.”

In celebration of the WHERE application launching on the Palm Pre phone, WHERE is giving away a brand spanking new Palm Pre to one of it’s lucky Twitter followers. It’s dead simple to enter! All you have to do is follow these rules:

Step 1: Retweet this EXACT message on Twitter.

Just entered to win a Palm Pre. Follow @whereitsat and ReTweet this message to enter.

Step 2: Follow WHERE on Twitter @whereitsat

You can follow WHERE by visiting the link below and clicking on the “follow“ button below the picture: http://www.twitter.com/whereitsat

Contest runs from June 9th - June 19th, 2009. One winner will be selected at random on June 22nd and will be notified via Twitter. Click here for official contest rules

We know you have been waiting months for the release of Palm’s newest smartphone and here it is! The Palm Pre has finally been released and can be purchased at your local Sprint Store, Best Buy & Radio Shack locations.

WHERE is excited to announce that it’s location based application is one of the few chosen to be available in Palm’s App Catalog at launch. 

WHERE on the Palm Pre comes packed with WHERE’s hottest features, including local search, traffic, gas prices, headlines, weather and the WHERE Wall. The app fully integrates with the Palm Pre phone’s innovative webOS functionality, such as linked contacts, layered calendars, multitasking, notifications and of course its GPS capabilities.

WHERE on the Palm Pre comes with these FEATURES:

- Save movie times to your calendar and buy tickets
- Save any place to your contacts
- Map location on Google Map and get directions
- Automatic notification of upgrades

WHERE is available for download in the Palm Pre App Catalog.

WHERE Product Development Manager Matt Gross, was interviewed last week at the Google I/O conference. WHERE was fortunate enough to be included in Google’s Developer Sandbox. The Developer Sandbox showcased companies which were fully maximizing Google technology in their own developments. In this video, Matt Gross talks about the WHERE Android application.

If you have been keeping up with the Tech news or been on Twitter today (#IO2009), you are likely to see a lot of news come through about the Google Android Platform and Cupcake update. Google is currently holding their I/O developer conference in San Francisco. (Be sure to say Hi to Lacy & Matt from WHERE)

The Google Cupcake is an update, version 1.5, now available for the Google Android mobile platform. Some of the new features include a virtual on-screen keyboard for touch-screen phones and video uploads to YouTube. Google has also added voice recognition, more background images & icons, and revamped the mobile browser allowing it to display more complex Web pages.

WHERE Android Developer, Ivan Mitrovic, recently spoke to Forbes Magazine about the Android Cupcake and how he planned to integrate the new features in the app. Speech recognition was on the top of his priority list.

“uLocate Communications (parent company of the WHERE applciation) will build a widget and integrate speech recognition into “Where,” its suite of location-based services.” said Ivan Mitrovic, President of Engineering at WHERE.

Word on the street is that Google already has a 2.0 version of the Android platform out and tech gurus and developers are anxious to see what’s in store. Code word? Donut

Photo Credit: Android Community

Ready to check out the latest version of WHERE on the Google Android? Representatives from WHERE will be demoing the latest version for the Google Android Cupcake Update at the Google I/O Developer Conference on May 27 & 28th as part of the Google’s Developer’s Sandbox.

According to the Google Website:

The Developer Sandbox is a new addition to Google I/O. Comprised of “pods” - demo station areas grouped by product theme - the Sandbox will feature a wide range of developers who have built applications based on technologies and products featured at Google I/O.Representing large and small companies, individual developers, and a diverse group of apps, these developers will be on hand at the Sandbox to demo their apps, answer questions, exchange ideas, and meet you in person.

Matt Gross, Director of Product Development & Lacy Garcia, Director of Marketing at uLocate will be on hand to provide demos and answer questions.

WHERE version 1.2 for the BlackBerry Bold (9000) has just been released and can be downloaded from The BlackBerry App World or by visiting www.where.com. This has been a long awaited release, and fixes some minor issues as well as adding a lot of new user functionality similar to that found on the BlackBerry Storm.

Some of the most notable changes are:

- Movies

- YellowBrix news

- Where Wall gravatar and weather

- Registration menu option from the home screen

- Better track ball navigation on the home screen.

- BlackBerry BISB network integration to improve network availability

- GPS criteria modification to speed up GPS location fixes.

- Minor bug fixes.

As always, your feedback is what keeps our development cycle rolling. If you have any issues, feature suggestions or comments please let us know by following us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook or send us an email at support@ulocate.com.

The WHERE wall is a mobile venue for connecting with others. Chat with other WHERE users from around the country about any topic that interests you from sports to news, local events to weather and everything in between. You never know what you are going to find in the WHERE Wall.

The WHERE Wall can be found inside the WHERE application on the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Google Android.