The always inspiring and excellent Tomi Ahonen has released his 2010 Almanac which is available for immediate download for 9.99 euros. Go get it now!

Here’s an excerpt from his blog:

“This is the 2010 Edition of the TomiAhonen Almanac, where every chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated. The page count is up from 171 pages to 180 pages and the count of tables and charts is up from 71 to 84. It is pretty much everything and every fact and stat you could hope for in a document of this size. The eBook style Almanac is formated for the small screens of smartphones so you can carry it with you everywhere.”

Read more here or BUY IT here

Any brand that attends the M-Football conference and that has never advertised on Admob’s mobile ad network will receive $1,000 of free advertising spend. To register for the event click here or email james@camerjam.com for more details

A Castle of Inspiration & Passion for things that matter most.

London, December 7, 2009 / mlovesociety.org – MLOVE announced today a new event exploring inspiration and how mobile will change our future.

The first MLOVE ConFestival in April of 2010 will combine a new way of sharing inspiring stories, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurial success from around the globe. The invite-only event will take place at an undisclosed location that is a 100-room castle built in 1818 and once served as a gathering place of a secret society.

Requests for invites can be emailed to 2010@mlovesociety.org

MLOVE will be a ConFestival of ideas, surprises and value for those that are going beyond the ordinary, challenge the status quo and for those that want to learn and share with fellow passionistas. MLOVE’s goal is to enable people to be inspired and inspire others one story at a time.

“Never before has there been such an intoxicating mix of personal experiences and personal interaction, all centered around the most personal communication device of all time” said MLOVE advisor Jonathan MacDonald, Managing Director of JMA, the global agency that enables companies to execute projects in mobile and other new media.

“We are bringing together CXO’s, innovators and entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines to share, learn and cross-pollinate ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other thought leaders,” said Peter Giblin, Director of the MLOVE ConFestival. The event exposes the mobile industry to the best minds outside of mobile to maximize the opportunity of creating life-changing services and applications that can impact us all for the better.

The MLOVE ConFestival is a two and a half day event designed to take you outside of every day thinking; an inspirational experience in a trusted environment. The backdrop is mobile, but the goal is to stimulate new ideas and thinking which you can apply to your life, your business and to inspire others.

“We believe mobile is nothing less than the future of our every day lives,” says Andrew J Scott, also an MLOVE advisor and the entrepreneur behind Rummble. “As radio, the telephone, jet engine, television and the Internet before it, wireless communication changes everything.”

How will mobile change your future?

About MLOVE:

The MLOVE tribe started grass roots by an international group of “mobile passionistas” in 2008. Through MLOVE “camps” in Barcelona, San Francisco, Munich, London, New York and Singapore the agenda for MLOVE evolved into more than mobile.

The advisory board to the MLOVE ConFestival 2010 includes: Andrew J. Scott (Rummble), Harald Neidhardt (Smaato & Founder MLOVE), Fee Beyer (T-Mobile), Jonathan MacDonald (JMA), René Bellack (Vodafone Media Solutions!) and Stefanie Hoffmann (aka-aki). The ConFestival is co-produced for MLOVE by Peter Giblin of Learn.Share.Play and in association with James Cameron of Camerjam (www.camerjam.com).

information and your request for an invite write to 2010@mlovesociety.org or go to www.mlovesociety.org — Follow MLOVE on Twitter: @mlovesociety and hashtag #mlove

Become a MLOVE fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/MLOVE/202832245694

BBC Radio 1 listeners will be able to send the radio station free picture messages from their mobile phones for the first time on Friday 11th December, as part of its ‘Access All Areas’ week.

Listeners in the United Kingdom will be able to send free picture messages to the BBC Radio 1 messaging number (81199), for a chance to see their images featured on the BBC Radio 1 website.

Mobile industry trade body, The Mobile Data Association (MDA), brought together each of the UK’s major mobile network operators (3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Tesco Mobile, Vodafone and Virgin Media) to form a partnership with the BBC which aims to get more young people involved with the station. The MDA has also launched an educational website with the long-term aim of helping people to send picture messages: www.getsettings.org.

Martin Ballard, Operations Director at the MDA, said: “BBC Radio 1’s Picture Messaging Day should provide a springboard to generate further interest in the medium. Our getsettings website aims to address configuration issues around older handsets in circulation and SIM-only contracts. But the emergence of increasingly sophisticated and affordable devices means users can begin to capitalise on the rich mobile messaging facilities which are now available, as they did with text messaging at the beginning of the decade.

“Getsettings will provide a single unified hub of settings information for the Picture Messaging Day and into the future.”

WIN plc, a leading enabler of interactive mobile media, entertainment and data services, is providing the technology which allows picture messages to be received and managed.