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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Samsung's Galaxy S III surpasses 10 million sales in less than two months  —  Samsung's newest Android flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S III — has surpassed 10 million sales in less than two months after going on sale, selling at a rate predicted by the company just last month, Samsung president Shin Jong-kyun (JK Shin) has revealed.

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.

Stuyvesant Town Sleuths Keep Vigil Against Illegal Hoteliers in Their Midst  —  IN her apartment in Stuyvesant Town the other day, Janey Donnelly was on a hunt for a hotel room.  At the Web site airbnb.com, she narrowed her search to the East Village, and scrolled down until a thumbnail photograph caught her eye.

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 …