Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

In the UK, 76% of the population own a smart phone and of that number ... emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

as the iPhone introduced their own emoji keyboard and competing phone companies followed suit. The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind it - and it was around long before the ...