Hey Ben, stop what you're doing, unless you're driving or holding one of your lovely children.

It's your birthday, Padre, and I wanted to do something special for you.

So I've decided to play Benny and the Jets. And then I remembered what a testy sort Sir Elton has

been lately and how much as I like you. I don't want to be sued. So here's my idea. I'm going to count to three.

And if everyone who hears this would just in your head, in your heart, or you know quietly under your breath, or shut it out loud if you want to.

If everyone who hears this would just say, Happy Birthday Ben, when I get to three, I know we won't

all be doing it at once, but if we all do it well how could he not have a good birthday?

So on three ready one two three Ready? One, two, three.

And there we go.

Happy birthday, Ben.

You rock. This is MacO-S-Kinn.

Weighing last week's I-Books's textbooks announcements, big shake-up in the BlackBerry Patch, and legal actions keep on keeping on.

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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster feels pretty good about what he heard from Apple at its

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Thanks largely to a survey of education IT admins he ran late last year.

Last October, Munster surveyed 25 school technology directors,

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