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.
- iPhone 4: The psychology of 'Antennagate'
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Is it all in the antenna, or all in the mind? How groupthink, availability heuristic, nocebo and hypnosis have created a reality distortion field that is casting an unfair spotlight on the world's finest smartphone.
- 19 July 2010
- Apple versus Adobe- who is in the right?
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Apple’s refusal to support Adobe’s Flash software on its multimedia devices has lead to a bitter war of words between the two companies. Apple claims Flash is "buggy" and prone to crashing, and favours the rival HTML5 format, while Adobe says that Apple's stance threatens the future development of the web and constitutes a 'walled garden' approach. But just what is at stake in this dispute? Who is in the right, and who is going to win? Graham Bower, writer and CEO of Taglab, takes a closer look at an ongoing battle which could sway the course of the digital sector in years to come…
- 24 May 2010
- Despite their squabbling, Google and Apple have a lot in common
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Over the last few months, Apple and Google have switched from being brothers in arms to mortal enemies. The media frames this battle as one of Google championing open standards, with Apple as the proponent of locked-down proprietary technology. But despite their fiery feud, the similarity between the two companies is striking.
- 12 April 2010
- WIRED Magazine is leading the retreat of the publishing industry from the Web
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Last week, WIRED showed off a prototype of the iPad version of their magazine. Graham Bower doubts that this is the future of publishing, suggesting instead that it’s just a last ditch attempt to subvert the Web.
- 22 February 2010
- Like men, iPhones supposedly can't multitask. Who cares?
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Beware the echo chamber of the blogosphere. If you listen to too many geek-blogs, you might get a skewed perspective and end up spending a fortune on ads with indecipherable headlines like "multi-multitasking" .
- 09 February 2010
- The real news on Wednesday will be how Apple decides to pitch the new device
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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?
- 26 January 2010
- Why Chrome will soon lose its luster
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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…
- 23 November 2009
- Is Microsoft playing possum?
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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.
- 13 October 2009
- The battle for the iPhone
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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.
- 23 August 2009