A hand-held control device (10) for controlling a terminal (30)
connectable
by a communications network to an addressed resource. The device (10) comprises
address input means for scanning and recognizing a text address (26) of
the resource, such as a URL, e-mail address or telephone number, and command output
means for uploading address information from the device (10) to the terminal
(30) whereupon the terminal (30) is caused to connect to the addressed resource.
