Given the choice between a dull gray Dell or HP laptops out of corproate inventory, many employees opt to take their sleek personal PCs or MacBooks to work.

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Even a decade or so ago, most phones had dull gray screens, clamshell designs or tiny keypads that made you hit a button over and over to text one letter of the alphabet.

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Instead we saw a dull gray.

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Coming from Dell whose dull gray commodity computers were probably a major impetus behind the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement by users who wanted something more attractive to work on, is something of a surprise, but Barris says Dell is an HFT powerhouse.

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Nolfi and the cinematographer, John Toll, have produced a sombrely unified vision of New York as a place of dull skies and frequent downpours, a city whose towers stick up like hostile gray stalagmites.

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