Graham Bower is a digital strategist and writer. As co-founder and managing director of full service digital agency, Taglab, he focuses on design, strategy and business development. Before Taglab, Graham was a board director at JWT Black Cat. Graham seeks to combine creative vision with his geeky obsession for technology, focusing on projects where creative and techie types must collaborate seamlessly to deliver intelligent solutions.Graham’s written work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, and his first book, “Secondomics: how coming second can be a winning strategy,” has recently been published on lulu.com. In his spare time, Graham is learning Swedish. He’s a cancer survivor, and is currently obsessed with his Nike+iPod as he trains for a Cancer Research 10k run. His other obsessions include Apple Macs and Starbucks Coffee.Graham is 38, lives mostly in London UK, but you’ll often find him with his partner in Stockholm, Sweden.

The real news on Wednesday will be how Apple decides to pitch the new device

By now, we have a pretty clear picture of what's going to be announced at Apple's media event on Wednesday this week. Steve Jobs's "latest creation" is essentially a giant iPhone. And that begs the question - do people really want to carry a giant phone around with them? Will we really carry two iPhones in our purses? Or will the man-sized phone languish at home, reserved for nocturnal web surfing?

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  • 26 January 2010
Why Chrome will soon lose its luster

Can Google’s new operating system Chrome become a serious contender to Windows, MacOS X or Linux? Graham Bower, managing director of Taglab, indentifies two fatal flaws that could send the search giant back to the OS drawing board…

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  • 23 November 2009
Is Microsoft playing possum?

This week’s critical drubbing of Windows Mobile 6.5 may give Redmond something to smile about

Back in the day, Microsoft used to get it in the neck from the Feds, from the developer community and from the industry at large. It seemed that whatever they did provoked ire. From their heavy handed negotiations with PC manufacturers, to their wilful bundling of useful new features into their market dominating operating system.

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  • 13 October 2009
The battle for the iPhone

Why Apple, Google and the Government and fighting for control of your phone

If you owned a shop, would you expect the government to tell you what products you should sell in it? Recently, America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked Apple to explain its decision not to sell Google Voice in its iPhone App Store. Their interest was presumably piqued by online protests from those challenging Apple's policy of vetting 3rd party apps.

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  • 23 August 2009