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Making XQuery Control Structures Work for You: The XQuery Language Is the XML Analogue of SQL, Designed to Augment XPath 2.0 by Working With Sets of Values, Not Just With Single Scalar Values
White Paper A database programmer who had spent some time working with an early XQuery implementation, once referred to the language as the smiley language. When the author asked whether that had to do with the simplicity of the... [30 Nov 2008]
Insert Smileys and Other Emoticons
White Paper If one has used an instant messenger or chat service, one has seen the ubiquitous smiley and frowning faces used to represent happy and sad. These symbols are called emoticons, a combination of the words "Emotion" and... [16 Apr 2008]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 21.09.07
Round-Up Podcast The UK iPhone launch, happy birthday to the smiley, new tech terms in the dictionary and silicon.com's Agenda Setters project are all discussed in the Weekly Round-Up podcast. Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the... [21 Sep 2007]
IM worm installs rogue browser
News The link may also say "Goat_Ensem Bot" with a smiley. A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue web browser called "Safety Browser" and hijacks the user's Internet Explorer homepage, experts have warned. [23 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 4.11.05
Round-Up Though it raises a good question: could the smiley have had a part to play in the great works of literature? For example - wouldn't it have been far easier to work out what was going on if each desolate line of inner... [04 Nov 2005]
IM threats rocketing - and rocking firms
News The number of threats targeting instant messaging (IM) is soaring, with one vendor reporting its own data shows a 1,500 per cent increase in threats year-on-year. IMLogic's Threat Center reported the huge increase in threats occurring... [02 Nov 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up So, having exhausted telephone, post, carrier pigeon, town crier and we presume sky-writing, the headmaster sent an SMS message to the boy's mother, giving her the bad news, which may or may not have been similar to the one above, which... [29 Oct 2004]
Analysis: Politicians botching tech laws
Comment The bill would make it illegal for companies to offer features like in-box searching or turning ":-)" smiley faces into graphics. Legislating technology hasn't gone well in the U.S.according to this piece from... [12 May 2004]
'All New' Yahoo IM client out
News The company increased its arsenal of animated 'smiley' emoticons, adding 13 new faces to its existing 35 choices. Yahoo will today launch a makeover of its popular instant messaging software, just days after similar... [26 Apr 2004]
Symantec download exposes PCs to attack
News I forgot about the 30-day grace period.also I forgot to report it," he wrote in his own advisory, tacking a smiley emoticon to the end. Security firm Symantec has admitted that a flawed piece of software may give hackers... [25 Jun 2003]
Yahoo! asks users to 'Save Smiley'
News The web portal has begun a campaign called "Save Smiley", in reference to Yahoo! Instant Messenger's smiley face icons. Yahoo! is tapping its millions of instant messaging users in hopes of ending what... [11 Apr 2003]
The silicon.com Yearly Round-Up 2002 (part two)
Comment Everyone's favourite smiley CEO has (some would say) performed miracles by keeping his company running. 4. Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems The mouth on legs has been on top form this year, putting the world to... [27 Dec 2002]
Online dating's new love: IM
Comment lets Personals subscribers archive messages, so that people can keep track of their conversations, as well as use its popular smiley graphics - features it says sets it apart from rival IM services. In recent weeks,... [25 Nov 2002]
Found: The first ever 'smiley'
News A Microsoft researcher has rediscovered what is believed to be the first known instance of a "smiley", the combination of characters used to signify a smile in email and bulletin board communications. [13 Sep 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: Your first computer
News It claimed to be the first ever PC game, and involved using an ASCI smiley-face to chase around a bunch of 'Pi' character sheep into a little pen which I could then block the entrance to with my... [11 Apr 2002]
