While George Steinbrenner's $200 million Yankees crashed and burned in the first round of the baseball postseason, the White Sox, a team devoid of brand-name superstars, rolled into and through the World Series.
The front of the phone is devoid of branding and physical buttons.
1 The new plain packs are olive green cardboard packages devoid of all brand design elements, with brand name and number of cigarettes written in a standardised font and location on each pack.
There's a Motorola "M" in the middle, but the device is, thankfully devoid of Verizon branding (the same, sadly, can't be said for the software).
No studies to date have been able to investigate the impact of plain tobacco packaging on tobacco pack appeal and the salience and effects of health warnings in the context of mandatory plain packaging, when all packs with which smokers are in contact are devoid of any branding other than a name in a standard font.
Unlike other bars on the block, this one is devoid of televisions and brand swag.
Also of note, while the front is devoid of any overt branding, the haptic disappearing home button takes the form of the company's "LE" logo, an extra bit of branding that just couldn't be avoided.
The front of the device is entirely devoid of any BlackBerry branding — in fact, there's nothing at all that indicates its connection to the Canadian company.
Facebook needs new ways to engage teens beyond Instagram and WhatsApp, and a standalone music app potentially devoid of its own branding could be a better approach than cramming teen features like Lip Sync Live into its uncool main app.
The news is getting announced in a blog post: "It has taken a lot of hard work, long hours and weekend sacrifices by our engineering team to deliver on our promise and we have accomplished this goal," the developers write on the site devoid of any HP branding.
Behind each stage hung a banner devoid of any corporate sponsorships or brand alliances -- the only image was a headshot of Hazel Dickens, a legendary bluegrass performer who passed away last year and to whom this year's festival was dedicated.
