We've all heard the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words," but did any of us think that could apply to emojis? Well, they may not literally translate to a thousand words, but these emoji combos ...

Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...

The Unicode Consortium updates its emoji file with hundreds of new characters, ranging from a John Travolta-like disco dancer to a joystick. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the ...

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Emoji is tipped to become the world's second truly global language and is the fastest growing form of communication in English speaking countries. But despite its ubiquitous use, the 'universal' ...

A total of 37 new emoji have been released today for use on a variety of platforms. They include popular requests such as a taco, a ‘bottle with popping cork’, a cheese wedge and even a turkey. It ...