After last week’s travel and travel-induced delays, I enjoyed going no further for work than Capitol Hill.
6/1/2015: Six Things to Know About Android’s Apple-esque App Permissions, Yahoo Tech
I could have written this post right after the Google I/O session that provided me with these details, but that Friday-afternoon talk didn’t wrap up until after 6 p.m. Eastern–and the delay allowed me to inspect the new permissions interface in a developer-prevue build of Android M on a loaner Nexus 9 tablet I picked up at I/O.
6/2/2015: Will Google Really Store All Your Photos Forever?, Yahoo Tech
Instead of trying to do a full review of this service based on only a day or two of playing around with it, I opted to use my Yahoo Tech column to unpack the long-term deal Google is offering with its new Photos service. One thing I didn’t mention in the column: I have near-zero hope of using any online service to back up all of my pictures, because I have about 20 years’ worth that exist only as negatives or prints, and I have nowhere near enough time to scan all of those.
6/7/2015: How software, service shifts disconnect smart TVs, USA Today
Not for the first time, my 2009 HDTV served as review hardware for a story. This time around, it involved the unexpected and unexplained shutdown of Rovi’s onscreen TV guide on some older Sony sets.
Rob Pegoraro 
Rob—with regard to the old photos and negatives, there are plenty of services out there who will scan them for you at a reasonable (to me) cost and burn them to a CD. Then it’s nothing to upload them to Google or Flickr or whoever you want. I did this about a year ago and came across some real gems that I never would have seen again.