What's up dock?  Apple to shrink connector for iPhone 5  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new iPhone will drop the wide dock connector used in the company's gadgets for the best part of a decade in favor of a smaller one, a change likely to annoy the Apple faithful but which could be a boon for accessory makers.

London ‘obvious choice’ for Amazon's expansion  —  Amazon is to open a new centre in London to spearhead a global push into film and television delivery services.  —  Amazon would not disclose how many staff the site will house but said “hundreds” of existing LoveFilm and Pushbutton staff …

Question for a C.E.O.: What Is Yahoo?  —  What is Yahoo?  —  That straightforward question has so far baffled the people who run the company.  —  I got a taste of the fuzziness when I visited Carol Bartz, then the chief executive, back in 2010.  She was funny, profane and articulate, except on the question of what the company is.

New Programming Jargon  —  Stack Overflow - like most online communities I've studied - naturally trends toward increased strictness over time.  It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide …

Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand  —  Heavy demand for the 16GB version of the new Nexus 7 tablet has caught Google out after it expected more customers ordering through Google Play to want the 8GB version  —  Sources close to Google say the search giant seriously underestimated …

MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia  —  Using a little-known copyright rule and a trove of baseball-related trivia, an MIT economist figured out how current copyright laws specifically affect one online community.  —  Everyone knows that the flow of information …

Skype Won't Say Whether It Can Eavesdrop on Your Conversations  —  Since Microsoft bought Skype, has the chat client started working more with law enforcement?  —  New surveillance laws being proposed in countries from the United States to Australia would force makers of online chat software to build in backdoors for wiretapping.

Think Hiring Is Tough In The Valley?  Now Europe Joins The Talent Wars  —  Despite some of the froth being blown off following the rocky Facebook IPO, it remains the case that talent and hiring are a big issue in the Valley.  And you may not know this, but for a long time Europeans looked onward …

The Reason for the iPad Mini  —  On the last Apple conference call Tim Cook stated that they would be sure “to not leave a price umbrella for competitors” in the tablet space.  What's that?  A price umbrella is when a company with dominant market share maintains high prices …

For the Olympics, Twitter and NBC Form Partnership  —  As athletes parade into London's Olympic Stadium this Friday, Twitter Inc.'s Olympic hopes will play out in a spartan office in Boulder, Colo.  —  There, a handful of people will spend 20 hours a day to help corral millions of Twitter messages …

Financial Times: Nokia mulling revenue split with carriers for Windows Phone 8  —  The Financial Times has reported that Nokia is in “exploratory” talks with several European carriers to share revenue for its upcoming Windows Phone 8 handsets in exchange for dedicated support.

After Growing 80% Last Year, Vidyo Launches VidyoWay To Connect All Conferencing Systems For Free  —  Video conferencing startup Vidyo has been working over the past several years to provide a software-based, interoperable service that will allow companies with various disparate video conferencing systems …

Area Journalist Partying Too Hard  —  I'm obviously not getting invited to the right parties, because the Silicon Valley I know and love bears no resemblance to the “obscene” picture painted by the NY Times' Nick Bilton in his article earlier today. … There is an obscene amount of money here.