Wednesday, July 17, is World Emoji Day — a completely made-up annual holiday and the only date that has its own emoji, ...

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study. Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice ...

It wasn’t a bad run, and to be fair, who knows whether we’d know how to fully express ourselves via text without Fahlman’s pioneering another way to communicate. Computing Emoticons Icon ...

and some lists have collections of emoticons numbering in the hundreds. But in actual practice, only a few are widely used. In the 1980s and ’90s, the popularity of text-only Usenet newsgroups ...

While some linguists might say technology has led to the degradation of the English language, sociolinguist Lauren Collister contends that emoticons and text-speak have actually made our language ...

According to the FWC, Gordon's text made Wang so angry that she "smashed ... She answered repeatedly that Gordon "didn't add any smiley faces" and "there are no emotions." Another employee asked ...

The makers of an SMS-enhancement app give a head's up of what to expect when text messages get emoticons, animations, and the color treatment. Jessica Dolcourt Senior Director, Commerce & Content ...

Mobile phone users who send a smiley or sad face, or any type of picture icon, in a text could be stung with massive charges – with one user billed more than £200 as a result of using these emojis.

Since texting, email, and whatever the next form ... savvy users take care to make meaning clear, and the use of "emoticons" (the smiley faces) has helped to put in some of the lost emotional ...

SMARTPHONE users who punctuate their text messages with a smiley face could be paying twice for a single text. last night admitted that consumers that used emoticons or smiley faces that contained ...