Paul Boutin
Author and Journalist
5 O'Clock Roundup:...tablet next year along with the rest of the pack. Well, not really a pack, it's just Apple and Crunchpad. About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital... In this article: Paul Boutin, Iphone, Wired, Google, Apple, Wikimedia Foundation, Twitter, News Corp, and Rupert Murdoch |
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VentureBeat | November 11, 2009
5 O'Clock Roundup: Twitter adds built-in retweet, Facebook programmer quits iPhone app
...to get rich at the App store, many simply find Apple's mysterious and final review process insulting. About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music &...
In this article: Twitter, Iphone, Apple, Facebook, App Store, Wired, 3Com, Slate, and MIT
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MSN changes the butterfly
November 6, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | MSN's new home page, which you can see at preview.msn.com, is the first one that doesn't look like it was designed by Microsoft. The new page has the same cheery look and feel as the Bing search...
In this article: MSN, Microsoft, Wired, Twitter, Bing, The Huffington Post, Slate, and MIT
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Roundup: Les Moonves rocks it for CBS, Google's privacy dashboard gets hated on
...silly not to show them off. Next Story: Max Levchin on Slide's big virtual goods bet, scams and - mating About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music...
In this article: Google, Les Moonves, Wired, Iphone, Twitter, Apple, and CBS
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5 O'Clock Roundup: FTC vs Intel, EMI vs BlueBeat,
...is Meredith's first (I think) video for the site. Enjoy her enthusiasm before this business burns her out. About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music &...
In this article: EMI, FTC, Intel, EBay, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft, and Wired
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5 O'Clock Roundup: Droid reviews, Apple's secret TV plan, Sprint's dubious netbook deal
...a habit of not showing up, as many consumers now know. Did you get your Android rebate yet? Let me know. About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music...
In this article: Apple, Sprint, Iphone, Android, PC World, Wired, Twitter, Disney, and Monsters vs. Aliens
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5 O'Clock Roundup: Sony still failing, Google jumps comparison ad train,
October 30, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | Sony posted its fourth consecutive loss, but consumer electronics in general is turning around - Sony lost $289 million last quarter, compared to almost the same amount in profits last year. The...
In this article: Sony, Google, Bing, Wired, Twitter, Panasonic, Samsung, Slate, and MIT
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Gawker | October 29, 2009
The Flakiest Editor in Silicon Valley [Hackfights]
VentureBeat's Paul Boutin wonders what the deal is with "Mike No-Show Arrington... punting" on events. Isn't it obvious? Arrington knows he's the "top draw;" how better to prove it to the rest of the world than by strategically withholding...
In this article: Silicon Valley and TechCrunch
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SpeedBit Video Accelerator eliminates YouTube, iTunes stalling
October 29, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | Don't you hate it when you try to watch a YouTube clip and it keeps stopping during playback? What it's doing there is buffering more video data to play on your computer. The guys at SpeedBit...
In this article: YouTube, Itunes, Wired, Twitter, Slate, MIT, Iphone, and Apple
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Yahoo Music veterans return with a music service for video production
...be as sexy as providing consumers with all the free music they want, but it may end up being more profitable. About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital...
In this article: Wired, Twitter, Yahoo Music, Slate, and MIT
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5 O'Clock Roundup: Nokia enters world's largest market, New York Times boss clams up on Apple tablet
...hypothetical Apple tablet get shut down by Apple: "They get very serious and cut the conversation short. " About the Author, Paul Boutin Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music &...
In this article: Apple, Nokia, The New York Times, Wikipedia, Wired, Iphone, Twitter, and Barry Diller
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Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context.
Boutin writes about social networks for the New York Times and covers the iPhone, Apple social networks and digital media for VentureBeat. He also contributes essays to Wired and does book reviews for the Wall Street Journal. He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag from 2006 to 2008, and a tech columnist for Slate from 2002 to 2008. Slate editor Josh Levin has praised "his sense of a good idea, sparkling sentence-level writing, and knack for translating tech-speak."
His work has also appeared in The New Republic, MSNBC, Reader's Digest, Engadget, Salon.com, Outside, Cargo, Business 2.0, the Independent Film & Video Monthly, InfoWorld and PC World.
Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at MIT, where he worked on Project Athena, and at several Internet-related startup companies in Silicon Valley. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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