Telmap scooped the Life on BlackBerry Award at last weekend's BlackBerry EMEA Alliance Program Innovation Awards 2008 in Monaco. The awards recognise developers that have excelled in 'bringing true differentiation to the BlackBerry platform and have delivered success, return on investment and efficiency gains to business and lifestyle customers.'

The full list of winners is:

* Driving Innovation in the Public Sector: Astute Mobile Data Solutions for work in doctor/patient care.

* Transforming Business Performance: Intuition Publishing Ltd for the Go Learn mobile solution.

* Accelerating Innovation for Entrepreneurs: TrackTech Ltd for eMerit

* Life on BlackBerry Award: Telmap Ltd for the Telmap Navigator

* Delivering Service Excellence: Offshore Tech for its banking application in Spain.

Jeff McDowell, VP of global alliances at RIM, said: “There are currently over 1,000 independent software vendors signed up to the BlackBerry Alliance Program. The winners of the first BlackBerry EMEA Innovation Awards... are not only transforming the mobile applications market but are truly making a difference to our business and consumer customers by enhancing their lives on BlackBerry smartphones.”

Mobile Entertainment's Tim Green was among the judges.