2013 Brand New Conference, Pre-sale & Save the Date
For those interested: Please save the date. The 2013 Brand New Conference will take place Friday, September 13, 2013 in New York, NY, at the SVA Theatre.
This year — for hardcore BNConf fans — we are giving you the option to purchase tickets at 25% off the early-bird price.
That’s $225 now for professionals and $115 for students. (Compared to $300/$150 during early-bird and $400/$200 during regular registration periods). The catch is that you don’t know who the speakers are, so you are putting your faith in us that we will come up with a great roster. Pre-sale prices will end around April 2013 when we update the site with the full details. Only applies to event tickets, not webcast.
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Call For Speakers & Save The Date: The Dieline Package Design Conference San Francisco
Brand strategies are now being built from the package outward – but a major shift happening now is towards the package design architecting all brand touch points based on the brand expression centering in the package design.
Brands, and designers are beginning to understand the value of starting with the package first. The Dieline Package Design Conference 2013 will show package designers how to extend the perception of their expertise and how to vocalize and be more articulate about what their design means to their brand.
We want to teach package designers to be better at considering the role of design in improving sales of a product, and to create meaningful differentiation. There are lots of beautiful designs out there, but not many are reinventing the perceptions of product benefits or paying off on shifting, emerging cultural ideology. We would like to change that.
The Dieline Package Design Conference 2013 will give package designers the language and tools to convince higher ups that their design is truly communicating to the brand target. We will elevate the role of package designers beyond craftsmanship discussions, and have more talks about becoming more influential and in demand, and how to become industry leaders.
Our goal is to go beyond presentations about geeking out on typography or what colors are in this year; The Dieline Conference 2013 will take a larger role of elevating the role of the package design and the package designer.
Interested in speaking at, sponsoring, exhibiting, or have questions about The Dieline Package Design Conference 2013?
Please contact Andrew Gibbs for more information at andrew@thedieline.com.
The Dieline Package Design Conference will take place on June 23-26 in San Francisco, CA.
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32GB Nexus 7 tablets appear at retail with $249 price tag, October 29th street date
Ahead of Google’s Android event on the 29th there’s additional confirmation of a storage upgrade for the Nexus 7, as 32GB units have now been spotted on shelves at US retailers. Seemingly dead-set on matching the LG E960 “Mako” Nexus G for the title of worst-kept secret, we’ve received this photo of a tag for the new unit at a Sam’s Club (with a placeholder price), while reports on Android Central and The Verge mention hardware spotted at Staples locations with one person actually succeeding in buying one. All of that follows a listing on the Staples website and one Japanese buyer apparently receiving one early by accident. According to the tags and receipts the new units are scheduled to go on sale the same day as the Android event, and at the same $249 price of the current 16GB model. Now that alleged Sony Nexus phone has been exposed as a fake we don’t know if there will be any surprises left to reveal 10 days from now, but if you want to buy anything from the brand patience (or at least shopping around) is probably your best strategy.
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32GB Nexus 7 tablets appear at retail with $249 price tag, October 29th street date originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HTC ‘preparing’ Jelly Bean update for One XL and One S, no date yet
HTC has a long history of both raising and dashing hopes of Android upgrades on its devices. Moreover, the Australian network Telstra has often led that emotional rollercoaster, which means the detail on its software update page above is probably best approached with an air of detached calm. It tells us that both the HTC One XL (the global version of the American One X) and the One S have official Jelly Bean updates being “prepared” by HTC — which is slightly more specific than what we last heard on this subject, when the manufacturer said it was “excited” about Google’s latest OS version and planned to support it “across a variety” of handsets. If you happen to own a non-LTE, Tegra 3-based One X, then the absence of that handset on the list doesn’t mean much — that model simply isn’t part of the carrier’s line-up.
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HTC ‘preparing’ Jelly Bean update for One XL and One S, no date yet originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Intel’s first smartphone coming soon: Xolo X900 gets 24 April release date
Intel’s first Atom smartphone is now available, and it’s Lava’s Xolo X900. It has managed to outpace both Lenovo’s K800 and Orange’s Santa Clara and arrives on the Indian carrier next Monday. Packing a 1.6 GHz Atom Z2460 processor, we handled one in Barcelona a few months ago, and were pleasantly surprised with its responsiveness, if not its middling build quality. The four-inch 1024 x 600 display is accompanied by a one-megapixel camera on the front, plus a primary 8-megapixel shooter on the back capable of burst-shot photography. Despite its plastic build, Intel’s new mobile offering won’t all that cheap; the Xolo X900 by Lava is priced off-contract at around 22,000 INR ($420). At the moment, we’re still waiting to hear how Orange and Lenovo will price up their own Medfield-powered offerings — both are expected to emerge in the next few months.
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2012 Brand New Conference, Save the Date
The 2012 Brand New Conference is swinging back to New York this year. Mark your calendar for Friday, September 7, 2012. All day. Speaker line-up and registration will open in a couple of months. Keep in mind this is the Friday immediately following Labor Day weekend (Monday, September 3).
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AT&T prepares internal systems for shared data, launch date still TBD
According to the memo seen above, Telegence has been tweaked to include a new group-level data feature node “in preparation for the launch of Shared Data.” This verbiage seems to suggest the new plans are coming in the very near future, but the communication is quick to point out that the launch date has yet to be determined. Unfortunately, since the new adjustments aren’t functional just yet, it could simply mean the company’s beginning the first wave of crucial internal testing. Regardless, its presence in AT&T’s systems is a great step forward, and a welcome one that’s been a long time coming. The question is, will the new plans arrive before Verizon can push its version out to the masses?
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T-Mobile G2X priced at $200, coming April 15th online and April 20th in stores (update: Sidekick 4G date)
The official word has been spoken with regard the T-Mobile G2X. LG’s dual-core, pure Android handset will be hitting T-Mo’s online outlet on April 15th for $200, and the same price will also apply in stores when it lands on April 20th. There’s a pesky $50 mail-in rebate to negotiate your way around, but after that you’re staring down one of the finest and smoothest Android experiences we’ve laid our hands on yet.
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Update: The Sidekick 4G has also received its date with T-Mobile destiny: April 20th for $100 on contract.
T-Mobile G2X priced at $200, coming April 15th online and April 20th in stores (update: Sidekick 4G date) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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2011 Brand New Conference, Save the Date
Now that we have a contract signed with the venue, we are delighted to announce the date and location of the 2011 Brand New Conference. So, save the date: It will be, again, a one-day event on Friday, September 16, 2011. The conference will come West this year to San Francisco, CA and will be held at the Marines Memorial Theatre, seating 646 people. Speaker line-up and registration will be launched in early May. Early registration ticket prices will increase from 2010′s $250 to $300 and 75 student tickets will be reserved at half the price ($150). Stay tuned for more details. For companies interested in sponsorship opportunities please contact us. Here is what happened at the 2010 Brand New Conference, in case you missed it.
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LG’s 3D-shooting Optimus Pad nabs March 31st retail date in Japan as T-Mobile fiddles
Japan’s NTT DOCOMO just announced a March 31st retail offering of LG’s Optimus Pad. The Honeycomb tablet listed as model L-06C is the same 8.9-inch 1280 x 768 pixel slab known as the G-Slate ’round T-Mobile subscribers. Besides its 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor and internationally compatible 3G data and GPS, the Optimus Pad’s most noteworthy features are the stereoscopic rear-facing video cameras capable of 1080p 3D capture which you can viewed directly on the L-06C with a pair of passive glasses. Unfortunately, NTT DOCOMO is mum on pricing. Remember, although T-Mobile originally hedged with a spring launch (recently rumored for April 20th), LG told us that it’d be arriving on US soil in March. So… T-Mobile, anything you’d like to add before Thursday?
LG’s 3D-shooting Optimus Pad nabs March 31st retail date in Japan as T-Mobile fiddles originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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