WhatsApp releases update for chat bar, emoji keyboard
- 30-Jan-2025
WhatsApp has rolled out a new update to fix the issues in the app’s chat bar and the emoji keyboard. The beta for Android 2.25.3.4 update has been released through the Google Play Beta Program and will be available for all users, as per WABetaInfo. The Meta-owned company released the fix after several users complained […]
Farmer’s thumbs-up emoji leads to $62,000 fine
- 08-Jul-2023
A Canadian farmer has been ordered to pay more than C$82,000 ($61,784) in damages over an emoji confusion that a Saskatchewan judge resolved by ruling that a thumbs-up image is enough to accept contractual terms. Chris Achter, the owner of a farming company in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, had sent a thumbs-up emoji in response to […]
Is putting an emoji as WhatsApp group icon possible now?
- 24-Sep-2021
WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that will make it possible for people to create new, custom icons to help label group chats. WABetaInfo, a platform that keeps an eye on all WhatsApp updates, says the new feature should allow people to create custom icons for use with group chats. This will be an unprecedented […]
‘Emoji’ house in town infuriates feuding neighbors
- 10-Aug-2019
Neighbors believe the emojis are designed to poke fun at them
The Universal Language of the Internet- EMOJI
- 11-Jul-2018
With World Emoji Day coming up on July 17‚ the team at HighSpeedInternet.com has released a study about the use of emojis and what they mean around the world. Generation gaps and confusion aside‚ the most popular emoji among English-speaking countries is the smiley emoji. No surprises there! Since we have bypassed everyone’s favorite grin well […]
Meet the force behind the Hijab Emoji
- 09-Sep-2017
Apple is soon launching the Hijab emoji, thanks to Rayouf Alhumedhi, a Muslim teenager who wears hijab since she was 13. How it all started? According to hijabemoji.org, Rayouf Alhumedhi, 15, was creating a new WhatsApp group chat with her friends last year, the group wanted make the title of the group a series of […]
Happy? Sad? Full of…? Sony film gives life to emojis
- 20-May-2017
If emojis were alive, their job would not be easy: called on at all hours to show up on screen happy-faced, with heart-shaped eyes, as mini-pizzas or … piles of poop. They form the indispensable background to our digital lives. It is almost impossible to imagine a text message without emojis. These thousands of symbols […]
Need job as emoji translator? You must move to London
- 14-Dec-2016
LONDON: A translation agency said on Tuesday that it is advertising for its first “emoji translator” to help meet the “challenges posed by the world’s fastest-growing language”. Based in the City of London financial district, Today Translations advertised on its website for a translator whose job will consist of interpreting the miniature images, from smiley […]
Twitter releases Pakistan emoji ahead of Independence Day
- 12-Aug-2016
The social media giant Twitter has just launched a new emoji for Pakistan ahead of Independence Day.
Check out: Ramazan gets own emoji on Twitter
- 07-Jun-2016
Social media users were surprised to discover new emoji launched by Twitter and Periscope for Ramazan greetings.