Windows Phone and the forthcoming Windows 8 interface, for example, use a very flat tile-like metaphor.
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Like other Windows 8 machines, the Surface starts up in the new, radically different, tile-based Start screen.
Microsoft is pushing Talisman, another tile-based architecture, for which Fujitsu will launch the first chip later this year.
Nearby are handicraft shops, a handful of galleries and a petite tile-lined grocer who has survived the neighbourhood's many changes over the years.
The waterproofing burns off during the shuttle's fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, leaving the tile-encrusted spacecraft vulnerable to the elements after landing.
Mapei, a family-owned adhesives group, had sponsored one of the world's leading cycling teams for decades and had historical ties to Sassuolo's tile-makers.
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Children in Stoke-on-Trent are being challenged to design their own ceramic tile - to become a permanent reminder of the London 2012 Olympics.
That's not to say the Focus isn't a sweet device, though: The vivid Super AMOLED display makes Windows Phone 7's colorful tile-based interface a visual treat.
The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.
It is recruiting 12 people to research the city's tile-making history and hopes to build an exhibition, uncovering stories from local people to include in the city's archives.
Original features remain, like the front desk, grand fireplace, tile-work floor, and Chinoiserie Chippendale bar in the J Bar which has been signed by every bartender to work there since 1889.
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This rectangular, windowless block grabs attention with its vertically-aligned tile work -- all in white -- which creates a rich texture when it catches the sunlight.
The real showstopper, however, was the bath, with its vanilla- colored tile walls, black-and-white marble floor, enormous terrazzo soaking tub and huge stall shower.
The live-tile design is strikingly different from the icon-based environment we find on Android devices and the iPhone.
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The showroom also features a big mural of about 3, 000 white ping-pong balls on a Venetian-tile entry wall.
In one home, stripped to its blue tile, hand-scrawled ledgers bear large sums recording building costs and other unspecified transactions.
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Across town and near the Testaccio neighborhood is Porto Fluviale, a trattoria, pizzeria and bar whose black-and-white lacquered-tile design evokes memories of Italian bars from days past.
You enter through a revolving door, go down a long gangplank into the center of the sunken dining room--a chrome-and-tile diner that could have been imagined by Frank Lloyd Wright.
It does seem likely, however, that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform could play host to Home before even iOS, as Zuckerberg's referred to the live-tile OS as falling "somewhere in between" due to the licenses involved.
Neighbors said Mr. Holmes spent at least some of his childhood in a two-story, cream-colored house with a Spanish tile roof in an upper-middle-class San Diego neighborhood.
Inside, art enlivens the dark marble lobby by Singapore's LTW Designworks: guests are greeted by Australian artist Jane Cowie's 9.9-meter-tall glass tile installation depicting a koi pond and subtly etched scenes from China Merchant Group's 141-year-old history.
This unit has tile floors, on-site laundry and is located in a gated complex.
It's actually liberating compared to Windows Phone 7's fixed tile sizes and years-old web code.
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The bathrooms used to have builder-grade cherry cabinetry, laminate counters and cream-colored tile.
Most of the interiors are just as luxe as the gold pool outside, featuring tile mosaics, hand-painted walls and ceilings frescoes.
Slow-motion replays suggested that the object might have been a heat-resistant tile protecting a compartment where the shuttle's drag chute is stored.
The main house is the more elevated structure and consists of an open floor plan with French terra-cotta tile floors, custom wrought iron and cathedral ceilings.
An artist is tracing the "forgotten stories" of the tile industry in Stoke-on-Trent after coming across a piece of the area's history while in New York City.
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