It's rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The instant messaging software has been long dead, with Microsoft pulling ...

Don't :- ( It's time to celebrate the emoticon's birthday by remembering the simpler days when all smileys were sideways. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100 ...

They found a pot vase which was once used to drink a sweet, sherbet-like substance. But it was the decoration of the pitcher that caught the eye of the astounded archaeologists. A complete face was ...

On World Emoji Day, emoticon inventor Scott Fahlman opens up about creating the progenitor of emoji and why he doesn’t use emoji himself. Reporter In September of 1982, a handful of researchers at ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

Emoji are the ideograms – smileys – used in electronic messages and on websites. You may know them more generally as ’emoticons’, but emoji are a specific subset of that phenomena. Emoji are widely ...

They're not just for Messages. Apple has made emojis such a part of iOS 14 that you can use them nearly anywhere you can type — and now it's made it easier to find the one you want. Okay, if you tried ...

Unless you are a habitually glum soul, chances are you would have thrown in an emoji your conversation: a smiley, a sad face or a shining sun. Unless you are a habitually glum soul, chances are you ...

Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET ...

If you've corresponded with someone who uses Microsoft's Outlook email product, you may have noticed something weird: Their e-mail messages might inexplicably end in the letter "J." So you get weird ...