Because they work. Wicked Local Newton reports a Newton resident actually wired money to Ghana to help somebody there obtain "two trunks full of gold." Police did not report the amount the resident lost.
David Flavell, charged with attacking and attempting to rape a woman in a Mass. General restroom on Thursday was ordered sent to a secure unit at Bridgewater State Hospital for observation for 20 days to determine whether he's competent for trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. He's next scheduled to appear in Boston Municipal Court on Nov. 16 for a status hearing.
The Living Room, an Atlantic Avenue restaurant, filed suit yesterday against Starwood Hotels, which is about to open a restaurant called the Living Room in its new W hotel on Stuart Street in the Back Bay.
In its suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, the original Living Room says the new Living Room would confuse Boston diners, that it's trademarked the name for use as a restaurant and that it was here first - it opened in 2002. The W Living Room is scheduled to open on Thursday.
An Israeli software company with an office in Waltham yesterday charged the way Google sends out updates for its Chrome Web browser violates its patent.
Red Bend Software filed its suit in US District Court in Boston, saying that's an appropriate venue because Google has an office in Boston and does business in Massachusetts
At issue is software Google now uses to let Chrome users download just changes to the Chrome application, rather than the making them download an entire new copy. Google says it wrote its own algorithm to figure out how to apply these "diffs;" but Red Bend says the new software uses the same principle as described in a patent it got in 1999.
The BRA is leading efforts to win federal stimulus money for a proposed $84-million revamp of the antiquated Marine Industrial Park (which includes the Black Falcon Pier), by among other things, adding facilities for handling larger cruise ships and restoring freight rail service back to the waterfront.
Or did somebody drop a 16-ton weight (labeled "Acme," of course) on his thumb, which caused it to swell up to 1,000 times its normal size and throb bright red and made his eyes balloon out of his head - as an old Model T horn blared in the background?
