What started as a joke on the Carnegie-Mellon University message boards became a fixture in email and instant messages.
Some call them smileys, others refer to them as emoticons, and a lot of people put them in emails, SMS, and instant messages every day; Ask.com can help people figure out what some of the odder ones mean.
European Internet payment service provider ChronoPay, announced a strategic partnership with Finnish software company Smilehouse, agreeing to add the company's software applications to its line of products available to European clients.
Many prognosticators have foreseen a great war--a battle for world domination. These soothsayers have named Wal-Mart, Google, and Starbucks as the most powerful of the behemoths that will be involved. And in a move that is not likely to ensure victory, or even confer an advantage, Wal-Mart is staking out a powerful claim by attempting to patent the humble smiley.
Shadowy skullduggery, twilight tete-a-tetes, and disseminated disinformation may have all been part of rumored talks between Yahoo and Microsoft about their online rival, Google.
MSN Spaces has added a Windows Live Expo module, so people can list their Expo items on their Space.
Love them or hate them, emoticons have been in use for a long time online; younger users may be surprised to find out just how long that's been.
Interest in the Cosmos-1 solar sail mission grows dramatically in the hours before its liftoff.
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