Nokia’s newly unveiled Lumia 920 could be the UK’s first 4G phone, with the Finnish …

commentary Smartphones are great. But it’s time to lower your expectations, because the smartphone industry has moved from an era of revolutionary improvement to a much more bland era of incremental refinement. Progress will continue, to be sure: screens will get better, networks will get faster, prices will come down. But these days, it’s just a lot harder to come …

If you’ve watched any “American Idol” the last couple of years, you’ve probably noticed a heavy dose of record impresario Jimmy Iovine’s Beats headphones on the show — from the hat that he always wears to the omnipresence of the product itself. It’s awful in many ways, but that’s what corporate sponsorship is all about. And it seems to be …