When Sarah tried sending a music file using her new phone’s Bluetooth to my phone last week, it didn’t work! The sign “this file is copyright protected” kept appearing on her screen and no matter what method we tried to get that file from her phone to mine, it just wouldn’t work! Of course, this situation left us both very frustrated and slightly disappointed but I learnt later that I just had my first encounter with digital rights.

When techies got sick and tired of checking websites every other hour for latest updates only to find none, they went and developed RSS? Really smart people have been using it for years to keep track of their favourite websites. Of more relevance here perhaps is that there are now plenty of RSS feeds for your mobile phones.

Once upon a time there was just the simple text message. You sent a message and you paid a low rate. A few years ago, however, a new category appeared and became known as premium rate SMS. In short, messages that you paid a whole lot more for.