These devices look like typewriters or word processors and transmit typed text over regular telephone lines.

While new media may someday mean interactive television, it now typically means transmitting text, audio or video over computer networks - and the Internet is the biggest new arena.

Some prepackaged programs include an alert system - when a user visits an objectionable Web site or transmits inappropriate text, the system administrator is alerted to these actions.

TDD/TTY devices are considered legacy systems, and may be replaced by other real-time text technologies that transmit text as it is being typed.

The radio industry, which is rarely a source of technological news, announced today that it had reached a standard for transmitting text on FM radio signals.

The International Business Machines Corporation said yesterday that it had signed an agreement with a Canadian cable television company to study new technologies to transmit text, images, video and sound.

I can still only transmit text from this console.

Because of power limitations and the jury-rigged nature of the communications equipment, they'd transmitted text only, rather than trying either voice or the far more complex transmission of voice and picture.

The radio industry announced a standard for transmitting text on FM radio signals.

Originally used for transmitting Vietnamese text over telex systems, it is now a popular input method for computers.