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Developers Disagree with Apple’s Decision to Reject Emoji Apps

In a move that will undoubtedly upset some developers (and their respective fan bases), Apple is now removing applications that advertise emoji character support. The reason? iOS now has default support for emoji emoticons.iOS 6 is the first version of Apple’s mobile operating system to bring full emoji support...

3 November 2012
19:21 GMT

Emoticons Are 30 Years Old Today

The emoticon, a standard of online communications and increasingly used offline is 30 years old today. What started out as a way of expressing feelings using simple ASCII characters, which is all that you got 30 years ago, became much more than that.  Professor Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University came u...

19 September 2012
15:51 GMT

Facebook for Android Gets Bumped to Version 1.9.8, Adds Messaging Emoji

One of the most popular social network applications, Facebook has just been updated with three new options meant to improve users overall experience. Firstly, the latest version of Facebook allows users to add photos and emoji to messages. In addition, users will now be able to share photos faster with a new upload ...

23 August 2012
04:16 GMT

Wazapp 0.2.4 for Nokia N9 Now Available for Download

MeeGo’s version of Whatsapp has just received a new update, which brings several bug fixes and adds support for a few new features. Dubbed Wazapp, the application is still a work in progress, but developers seem to take great care and deploy fixes and new features pretty fast. The latest update bumps the appl...

21 May 2012
14:31 GMT

WhatsApp for S40 and Windows Phone Updated with Emoticon and Emoji Support

One of the most popular cross-platform instant messaging applications, WhatsApp has just been updated with new features and bug fixes. MyNokiaBlog reports that the WhatsApp Messenger for S40 has been updated with emoticon support. No other detail has been revealed on this Java client. However, the Windows Phone app...

12 April 2012
05:50 GMT

iPhone 2.2 Features Disclosed

Last month, it was confirmed that an iPhone 2.2 beta build had been handed to a select number of iPhone developers for testing. Two weeks into the release of Apple's first pre-release build of the new iPhone OS, some hidden features have emerged, Japanese emoji icons (461 emoji characters), Google Street View, a...

7 October 2008
03:55 GMT

Gmail Chat Has Hidden Emoticons

(Imagine the Star Wars way of text scrolling up the screen while the theme is playing in the background:) For years, the stage of the Instant Messaging services had been dominated by the strong Yahoo! armada which reigned supreme among its peers, squashing in its infancy any other service's attempt to overthrow ...

27 February 2008
16:06 GMT


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