Give Palm credit: The handset maker, which has been struggling to figure out whether it wants to heighten expectations or dampen them, delivered third-quarter results that were just as lousy as it had promised. Palm said it lost 89 cents a share–or 86 cents a share after excluding one-time charges–on sales of $96 million, and said smartphone sales were down 72 percent. That’s what Palm meant when it warned earlier this month that revenues would be bad and that it would experience “continued margin pressure from its legacy product lines” for a while longer. But just wait till the Pre arrives!

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I realize people have bigger things on their minds these days, but how did the blogosphere not pick up on this yesterday? Because while it’s important to note that Intel has committed to spending $7 billion in the U.S., it seems that none of us Apple-obsessives noted this nugget: The President is a PC user.

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At today’s Kindle 2.0 unveiling, CEO Jeff Bezos took pains to point out that at some time you will be able to read Kindle books on non-Kindle devices. Of course, he didn’t provide any other details. So does an iPhone tie-up make sense at some point? Or does he have something else up his sleeve?

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The BlackBerry Storm hasn’t been a breakout hit. But last quarter Verizon still added another 1.4 million mobile customers, none of whom seemed swayed by the iPhone.

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Palm used to own the smartphone market, but now it’s barely hanging on. Today the company unveils its long-awaited comeback plan: The Pre, which features an iPhone-like multi-touch screen but also boasts a keyboard. Will it be enough?

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In October, Mahalo.com founder Jason Calacanis laid off staff at his human-powered search engine. Then he announced he was hiring engineers for a mysterious new “Project A.” Today he’s unveiling it: An “answers” service designed to compete with one of Yahoo’s most successful sites.

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This may make it easier for Barack Obama to kick his well-publicized BlackBerry addiction: News that Verizon employees have been snooping through his phone records. The phone company says the handset in question is a “simple flip-phone,” and not a Berry, and that it has been inactive for several months. But the startling public admission should be enough to convince Obama, if he needed any more prompting, that he’s going to have to give up his prized gadget.

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