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 ...

We already know that sarcasm is hard to communicate via email. Well, according to this study, it turns out that warmth is as well. People often use smiley face emoticons in their emails as a way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

We often think of emoticons arriving with the invention of text speak - when people first started to send messages using mobile phones and in emails. But the first emoticon – specifically the smiley ...

Think you're being nice when you add a smiley face to the end of your email? According to one study, you could be conveying something else. The new study, titled the "The Dark Side of a Smiley," ...

Emoticons such as smiley and sad faces are changing the way our brain works, Australian researchers have claimed. They say the use of the punctuation faces trigger parts of the brain usually reserved ...

PITTSBURGH — It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon ...

The humble smiley face emoticon, now a staple of online communication, owes its origin to a physics joke that didn't hit ...

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 ...