Qualcomm just announced the winners of the 7th annual BREW 2008 Developer Awards today and WHERE was one of them! WHERE beat out LBS applications from big names like Garmin and Telemap. Just to be nominated, WHERE had to be “making use of positioning technology to improve the user experience, quality and quantity of choices and information about choices, usefulness of content, visual appeal, an easily navigable and intuitive user interface, originality and efficient map navigation.” Winning the Best LBS Application Award not only means that WHERE posesses those qualities, but that its qualities are better than hundreds of other applications! That’s pretty impressive!

The award winners were announced during the awards ceremony at the BREW 2008 Conference in San Diego. Click here to read more!

Last week, the winners of the 2008 Spring WHERE Developer Contest were announced. The grand prize winner was Skymap, an application that uses GPS-enabled mobile devices to display the current sky at the user’s current location. The Skymap application was created by Mediated Spaces, Inc. The 3 runners-up were Mapicurious, a creative POI finder, Voicemap.mobi, a mobile and web-based system for leaving voice notes tied to a location, and DigOrDis, which lets consumers rate restaurants or businesses by giving them a thumbs up or down.

Skymap will receive a cash prize and a meeting with the AT&T team. The runners up will win cash prizes. All 4 winners became publicly available on multiple carriers via the WHERE platform.

The WHERE Developer Contest wrapped up about a month after the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge, in which 10 of hte 15 finalists and 3 of the 4 winners were created on the WHERE platform. Check out the winning applications here!