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urged the US Supreme Court to consider Research In Motion Ltd.'s appeal of a ruling against its BlackBerry e-mail devices.

Intel filed court papers Wednesday urging the court to consider RIM's bid to reverse a finding that the devices and the system for sending wireless e-mail infringe patents owned by NTP Inc., a Virginia licensing company.Settled: The founder of the credit counseling firm AmeriDebt agreed to pay $35 million to settle suits filed by regulators and former customers over $172 million in allegedly hidden fees the company collected.

The money that Andris Pukke pays would go to a fund used to reimburse the roughly 300,000 customers the Federal Trade Commission claimed AmeriDebt Inc.

deceived.

Pukke is also barred from working in credit counseling, debt management, or telemarketing as part of the settlement.Promise kept: Hedge funds ended 2005 by making good on promises to make money in a year that saw a number of these loosely regulated investment pools fail.

The average hedge fund returned 9.18 percent last year, according to ...

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