| TCP/IP |
Transfer Control Protocol combined with the internet Protocol form the basis of the internet today and govern facilities such as file transfer and data retrieval. TCP/IP has been widely adopted as the internet standard on a wide variety of computer platforms. |
| Telesales |
Selling to customers over the telephone. Telesales is a specialised form of selling and is often handled by agencies with staff trained specifically to sell this way. |
| Token Ring |
An IBM PC networking standard used to connect individual PCs - it transmits messages using a token or label attached to a packet. |
| Toolbar |
Some software programs feature toolbars at the top of the screen (or elsewhere) containing buttons which can be selected with a mouse to perform specific commands. Toolbars make software easier to use because clicking on a button is faster than opening a menu and selecting a command or typing in the command using the keyboard. |
| Trackball |
Often used on laptop PCs as more compact and convenient than a mouse, a trackball is a ball mounted on a keyboard that can be rotated by hand to move the arrow (or cursor) on the computer screen. |