Abstract: A device such a cellular telephone is provided with an I-key. A register of the telephone is used to stored the digits entered on the keypad of the phone. If the I-key is pressed after a sequence of digits has been entered on the keypad, the phone interprets the number in the register as an private number for an information resource such as are available on the Internet. The phone translates the private number into an URL, and obtains a TCP/IP address corresponding to the URL. The phone transmits an access request to the Internet resource corresponding to the private number and launches a browser or another suitable application to display the data returned from the resource.