The Only Smartphones Worth Buying Right Now

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The last week of February was a big moment for smartphone news. Most of the big players attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to show off their upcoming gadgets for the spring and summer release cycle.

We saw a lot of interesting phones that will be launching soon, including several models with giant screens. (In fact, some of them are as large as the Kindle Fire tablet.)

You'll have to wait a few weeks to get your hands on them, but we wanted to let you know there are still plenty of great devices available for purchase now. The following is our ranked list of the best smartphones you can buy today.

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These Are the Best Internet Service Providers

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If you're looking for the fastest, most reliable internet service provider, here you have the ranking of all the major ISPs in the United States. It's actual, real world performance—compiled by Netflix from all its customer data: 30 million members watching 1 billion hours of movie content every month.

That's a lot of data, so you can be sure this is a reliable classification. The best is Google Fiber. According to Netflix, "Google Fiber is now the most consistently fast ISP in America, according to actual user experience on Netflix streams in November." It is not surprising, considering how much bandwidth the Mountain View company is hogging and how new its network is.

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The Only Smartphones Worth Buying Right Now

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It feels like the holidays are already here.

By now just about every major hardware manufacturer has already released or is about to release its flagship smartphone in time for the holiday shopping season.

November is especially huge as we'll see the debut of devices like Nokia's Lumia 920 and HTC's 8x that run Microsoft's new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8.

Keep reading to see the best smartphones you'll be able to buy this month.

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YouTube Changes Its Search Ranking Algorithm To Focus On Engagement, Not Just Clicks

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YouTube just announced that it is changing its search ranking algorithm to highlight videos that keep viewers engaged. The idea here, says YouTube, is to “reward engaging videos that keep viewers watching.” Because of this change, YouTube expects that the time viewers spent watching videos from search will increase in the near future.

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Best SEO Tools to improve search engine ranking

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SEO, Search Engine Optimization is a technique of getting pages more prominence. It works on the basis of re-arranging the search results that are displayed every time a relevant keyword is searched for over the internet, they give priority to the pages that were the latest visited by the users. Now that we know what SEO is, we’ll move on to our post today that is about the Best SEO Tools to improve search engine ranking.

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These Are The 11 Best Mobile Ads In The World

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The elite Cannes Lions advertising festival awarded prizes to the world's best mobile advertisements for the first time this year.

The winners of the Mobile Lions are great examples of how advertisers can meld creativity with functionality on a small screen.

The successful campaigns weren't disruptive banner ads (that mobile gets a bad rep for), but immersive augmented reality or app experiences.

R/GA's Nick Law, who will be judging a separate mobile awards show later this year, told Business Insider, "We aren't totally in the advertising industry anymore—we call ourselves that by proxy since we don't have a better word for it."

Here's what won the Grand Prix and Gold Lions at Cannes.

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Ten Ways To Improve SEO Rankings

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There are many different tips as to how you can improve your website's search engine optimization, or SEO. Here are 10 that work.

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Top 100 Ranking Athletes in 2012

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Drew Brees had a monster season in 2011. A remarkable, record-breaking on-field performance—combined with $16 million in earnings and such off-field strengths as public appeal—pushed the New Orleans Saints quarterback to the top spot in this year’s Power 100 ranking of the most powerful athletes. Following Brees were the Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, New England Patriot’s Tom Brady, Miami Heat basketball forward LeBron James, and tennis champion Rafael Nadal. The ranking was developed by CSE, an integrated sports and marketing firm in Atlanta, and Horrow Sports Ventures. In addition to 2011 on-field metrics, total earnings, and social media presence, the ranking incorporates such off-field metrics as athletes’ name and face awareness, appeal, influence, and trustworthiness using Nielsen/E-Poll N-Score data from Encino, Calif.-based research company E-Poll Market Research. The ranking comprises only professional athletes playing in the United States. Coaches, executives, owners, agents, and athletes who retired before the 2011 calendar year were not considered. Only regular season statistics were used.

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