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Has it really been more than a year since Microsoft and Nokia said Flipboard would arrive on Windows Phone? Yes, it has: During the July 2013 Lumia 1020 launch event, it was said the Flipboard will “soon be available.” I guess “soon” is now because Flipboard is out of beta and in the Windows Phone store. Don’t expect to flip through stories though: You’ll be swiping the day away because the flip interface isn’t there, reports The Verge. Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose? And what’s next: Flappy Birds that don’t flap? Anyway, if you’re been waiting for the app, it’s there for the taking…. and the swiping.

This article is part of the ‘Think Further’ series, sponsored by Fred Alger Management, Inc. For more ‘Think Further’ content and videos, visit thinkfurtheralger.com.

Throughout my career I have repeatedly seen that remote patient monitoring can lower costs and extend life better than prescription drugs. Which got me thinking: if this works for chronically ill patients, what are the possibilities for the general population?

We are living in an era of exploding popularity for consumer health and wellness devices and online services that help manage activity, food, sleep, stress, resilience, and more. These tools are creating an incredible amount of digital exhaust which, at the individual level, combines to create a detailed, real-time health fingerprint of each person, and at the aggregate level provides healthcare professionals with more information than ever before possible about what keeps people healthy (and what makes them sick).

Health care over the next 50…

There’s a lot to question about the plans of ConnectX, a Los Angeles-based startup that plans to build a new type of big data system in space — running on satellites and using a new type of non-binary processor instruction — but founder and CEO Lance Parker is adamant about his vision. “It will work,” he said during an interview about the company’s strategy.

To be more specific, ConnectX wants to make the process of storing data more efficient and also improve data-analysis speeds; space is only the ideal real estate. The real secret sauce behind ConnectX is a new computing model that replaces binary code with symbols that Parker says can store data much more efficiently. He makes a comparison to written language, where an English sentence can sometimes be captured in a single Chinese character.

ConnectX’s initial satellites will be about the size of a cantaloupe, and Parker…

Announcing AppDynamics AppSphere 2014, happening November 3-5 in Las Vegas!

AppSphere 2014 will bring together Business Executives, Operations gurus, and Developers  to explore and discuss how technology and applications are transforming today’s business world and will feature speakers from companies like Google, Lithium, and Microsoft, and a keynote by Bill Platt, GM of Amazon Web Services.

AppDynamics has grown and evolved dramatically over the last few years, making AppSphere 2014 the perfect opportunity for customers, thought leaders and industry decision makers to connect and build an in-person community. AppSphere will grow into an annual forum for us to collaborate and reflect on how we are transforming the future of IT.

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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus pre-orders were delivered last week and that means package tracking apps were busy. Now that people have their new iPhones is there anything to be learned from the shipment data?

Yes, according to Slice, which aggregates information from its package tracker app: AT&T accounted for nearly half of all U.S. pre-orders among those who used Slice to follow their handset shipment while iPhones compatible with T-Mobile’s network out-shipped those for Sprint’s by a factor of five.

Apple’s iPhone 6. Photo by Tom Krazit/Gigaom

The data from Slice — one of my favorite apps for Android and iOS — literally is a slice of all [company]Apple[/company] iPhone 6 and 6 Plus pre-orders: The data can only be captured by those who used the app to track their iPhone shipment. The sample size for Slice’s data is 13,055 U.S. consumers; a small portion of the 4 million pre-orders but…