Emoticon providers are all smiles these days due to surging demand from users of KakaoTalk, the nation’s leading mobile messenger app. But few are as busy as Sticky Monster Lab (SML), one emerging ...

Last month we told you about a free application called Easy Smiley Pack for BBM which added 250+ smilies and symbols to your BBM chats. Easy Smiley Pack is more than just a catalogue of happy faces ...

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 ...

Sometimes, words are not enough. So, what do devotees of SMS/e-mail do to express themselves in new, different ways? Sometimes, words are not enough. So, what do devotees of SMS/e-mail do to express ...

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 ...