Animated emoticons can add flair to a website, email or other type of electronic medium. While they may look like video files, they're typically a series of GIF images placed together ...

Even the animated emoticons Facebook has just released for chats (akin to instant messaging) just barely represent the amount of expression a human face can have. But even if emoticons could be ...

The emoticon has been upgraded and animated, loved and hated. Emoticons have graced gadgets, T-shirts and more. Witness the emoticon’s lasting impact, and smile if you can.

BlackBerry Messenger 6.1 brought along some cool new features, one of which is the ability to use animated icons for your avatar. While you can download them at various places on the web, not many ...

He was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jacques appealed, saying the officer entrapped him using animated emoticons during Internet chats.

Skype today released an update to its Android app, version 5.3, which introduces new features that bring the Android version more up-to-date with features recently released for iOS and desktop users.

From :) to ¯\(°_o)/¯, there are now thousands of emoticons, and as Chris Baraniuk discovers, some can even sway our behaviour. It all started with an awkward moment online. In the early 1980s ...

Emoticons are already pretty annoying, but making a physical emoticon that changes expressions based on emoticons in Windows Live Messenger? That’s really, really annoying. Keep this thing the ...

Razer’s new Seiren Emote, announced today at TwitchCon, comes with a built-in 8-bit emoticon display that can link to Twitch and react dynamically to subscriptions, follows, and chat messages.

Along with the Microsoft account login, the app adds animated emoticons and a few other welcomed additions that users will find useful. Advertisement.