On World Emoji Day, celebrated on July 17, we celebrate emojis in all their quirky, colorful glory. Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to ...

So, in 2011, Apple included an emoji keyboard in its iOS 5 update, causing emoji to burst onto the international scene. Quickly, the tiny images replaced emoticons as smartphone users’ preferred ...

The First Graphical Emoticons: 42 Smileys. DALLAS, Texas (July 5, 2022) — In celebration of World Emoji Day, Heritage Auctions will present an event sure to put smiles on faces. The Smiley ...

An emoji is an actual image - it could be a picture of a smiley face or something more specific, like a dancing lady, rolling eyes, an oil drum, a Japanese goblin, a chestnut, a fish cake, a ...

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, 1982, and emojis have been part of online life ever since.

There’s a brand behind the fluorescent smiley face that dominated the 90s rave scene, prudently named The Smiley Company. Now, after decades of running it as a licensing and merchandising ...

The Surrey-based company behind the 'emoji passcode' (pictured) claims it's more secure than numerical passwords because there are 480 times more variations using emojis.

There is no standard catalog of emoji. Unicode can tell companies like Apple or Google that certain bits of code should show up as a smiley face, but it’s up to software manufacturers whether ...

Signing off an email to a colleague with a chirpy grin might be more contentious than you think. Including smiley faces or similarly perky emojis may undermine information sharing and imply ...

Perhaps there isn't just one way to punctuate emoticons and emoji. Sometimes, you really do need punctuation—using just the opening half of a pair of parentheses looks pretty odd, for example.