I can guarantee that made someone smile. A simple resolution for the New Year if you employ younger Generation Y workers, is to on occasion when writing emails to your individual staff, to use ...

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 into ...

London, Oct 12: Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a study by a US university.

Researchers from the Rice University found that while women may use emoticons more than men, the men used a larger variety of these symbols to express themselves. Emoticons are graphic symbols that ...

EVER NOTICED those funny faces made up of punctuation marks and symbols used in e-mail and chat room messages? Those creative keystrokes are called 'emoticons' - a combination of the words 'emotion' ...

Sure, you use the Messages app to send along SMS and iMessages all day long. You know how to use Emoji’s, too, with a tap on the international keyboard button on your iPhone. I bet you even use ...

With communication moving at the speed of light, it makes sense that you'd want to take the quickest path possible to inform your employees of your emotions. Doing this via text message requires just ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

Emojis and emoticons have replaced non-verbal cues like facial movements, voice pitch and other gestures to clarify a message on social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, a study ...

We all are aware of the popularity of emoticons and the variety available at our disposal. Recently, emoticons have gained popularity in text messages and e-mails as a way of signing off the message.