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The more than 10,000 smileys and emoticons that are available through Smiley Central work with instant messaging applications, email programs, blogs and mobile devices. Smiley Central is a web property of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp.
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Cingular Wireless has won a patent on the concept of using "emoticons" on mobile phones. The patent applies not only to graphic versions of the ubiquitous smiley/mad face but ... to simple text versions.
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Cingular has applied to the U.S. Patent Office for the exclusive right to permit the use of emoticons on mobile phones. Will teenage girls all over America lose the right to use smiley faces in IM?
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