In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with ... first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji ...

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

An emoticon is a blend of ... as the iPhone introduced their own emoji keyboard and competing phone companies followed suit. The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind ...

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

We've got a bulging, slightly overwhelmed smiley ("distorted face ... can send an emoji instead. There are actually 164 new emojis in the proposal, but we've covered the main icons – all ...

Texting has changed the way we use language, and perhaps the most noticeable change is the use of those little icons ... ‘emoji’ means ‘pictograph’ in Japanese. The ‘E’ stands for picture or drawing ...