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 ...

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University. The symbols, which began as happy and sad smiling faces but have since morphed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It wasn’t long before the text smiley swelled into an entire family of emoticons. Bulletin board posters quickly began adding frowny faces: :-( to more serious or negative posts, followed by ...

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 ...

GET this. Smartphone users who punctuate their text messages with a smiley face could actually be paying twice for a single text. Telstra last night admitted that consumers who used emoticons or ...

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.