Developers rewarded for both commercially ready and cutting edge location-based solutions

Contestants from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa were challenged to enter applications in the “LBS – Out the Box” Developer Competition.  This Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series contest had two categories.

Market Ready Category:  For LBS applications that offer consumers a commercially ready, end-to-end solution “out the box”

Disruptive Innovation Category:  For developers thinking “out the box” who have a cutting edge innovative application that will push the boundaries in the LBS market.

Winners from each category were awarded prizes of €20,000 in cash and a license to use Tele Atlas map data valued at €25,000.  Their applications were showcased at the Tele Atlas stand at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona.  Four finalists also won development prizes of €8,000.

Click here to have your company’s application considered for future contests.

“LBS – Out the Box” Winners
2009 Mobile World Congress:

Winner:  Market-Ready Category

Nulaz is a Web 2.0 service for the mobile phone and Internet that combines location-based information with social networking tools. Nulaz provides information to users about what is happening around them.

Semi-Finalists:  Market-Ready Category

MobGeo is a location-aware advertising platform that extends classic mobile marketing with location targeted information, advertising, vouchers and immediate customer feedback

Webwag is a Web and mobile widgets framework that uses map data to build any map-centric applications that work on any device and includes advanced capabilities such as positioning and communications.

Winner:  Disruptive Innovation Category

Rummble is a location-based discovery tool and social search platform designed to enable consumers to find people and places nearby based on their individual preferences.

Semi-Finalists: Disruptive Innovation Category

Commandro is a universal mobile, map-centric application designed for Android to integrate mobile social networking with location-based gaming

Texperts is a “mobile find” service that allows users to text a question to a team of research experts who provide individually tailored, relevant answers and information including location-related content straight to the users mobile.

For more about the contest, read the Tele Atlas press release.

Click here for a video interview of Tele Atlas and the “LBS – Out the Box” winners with PocketGPSWorld at Mobile World Congress 2009.