We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

Emoticons have been around a lot longer than one might think. In a March 30, 1881 item in Puck which included typographical representations of joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment, it was ...

To be honest, I've never been one for smiley faces. I've always felt I am just like one year too old for them. At my brother's high school graduation I listened to a popular teacher give his whole ...

In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...

Facebook lets you add special characters such as smileys, hearts and diamonds by using the "Alt" key codes that are built into Windows. There are several hundred special characters that you can choose ...

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Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley ...

VALENCIA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Voicemod, the world leader in augmented voice and interactive audio, has signed its second IP deal in collaboration with lifestyle brand The Smiley Company ...

Pro tip: Keep the smiley faces out of your work emails, or else the person receiving the message may think you’re incompetent. That’s according to a study published in “Social Psychological and ...

We're all familiar with the smiley emoticon, and its power to add levity, flirtation, and occasionally passive-aggression to our texts, chats, and e-mails. But according to researchers, our brains ...