After the dismissal of two of its cases against Motorola - one in Wisconsin, one in Illinois - Apple hasn't exactly been on a roll when it comes to Google's newly-purchased hardware arm.  Motorola, too, hasn't done very well, with its own counterclaims in the same Illinois case also being dismissed, and by making an unexplained last-minute withdrawal of a major ITC case it was filing against Cupertino. 

At the time, my first instinct when Motorola withdrew its software patent case against Apple was "settlement talks are on the table."  While today's news still doesn't shed too much light on that particular event, it comes with its own bright spots of hope. 

Google recently updated its SDK license terms for the first time in a long while.  While most changes are minor, one change has been grabbing quite a few headlines – Google's proclamation that those using the SDK are disallowed from taking "any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android".  Here's the full clause in question:

3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK. 

While Google may not be entirely ready to commit to LTE as the network that its current line of Nexuses will run on, three of the big four carriers seem to boast what they're up to in that department pretty consistently.  Today, it's AT&T.

The company has just announced that not only does its LTE network cover "more than 150 million people across the U.S.," but also that it's ahead of schedule and plans on adding around 100 million more people to that number by the end of 2013. 

Update: It looks like the 16GB Nexus 10 is back in stock now.  If you were one of the unlucky few who missed the first batch of orders, go ahead and claim yours now. 

There's no denying Google's launch of its new Nexus lineup has been a little bumpy.  On launch day, we saw near-instantaneous shortages of the Nexus 4 in multiple countries including the US.  Shortly after the Nexus 4 sold out in the US, the 32GB Nexus 10 fell. 

We received tips from a number of folks this morning that the Nexus 4 has finally had its source code dropped into AOSP - and it has!  Sort of.  If you head over to the Android Git, and to the /lge/mako repo, you'll notice lots of things that people with beards understand.  And those things are, basically, the source code for the Nexus 4 (which is still called mako in AOSP, apparently). 

We already know that Nexus devices are easy to unlock and root, but the process is still a bit different each time.  Thus, XDA member HQRaja posted a handy guide on exactly how to root the Nexus 4. 

There are two different ways of rooting the device - using either ADB with an insecure boot image, or directly through ClockworkMod Recovery.  While both methods are posted in the source thread at XDA, the CWM method is undoubtedly easier and will probably feel more familiar to most. 

Thanksgiving isn't just about turkey and mashed potatoes (sorry, I had to), it's also about snapping up deals on the things you've been waiting all year to buy, or the things you've yet to cross off your holiday shopping list. 

Sprint, in a newsroom post earlier today, announced that it would be sharing "the gift of 'Unlimited' for the holiday shopping season," revealing a few nice deals customers can take advantage of between Thanksgiving and "Cyber Monday." 

Since its announcement, many internet comments (and tech bloggers, frankly) have lambasted the 2020mAh battery inside the DROID DNA as obviously being too small.  A 5", 1080p display, quad-core processor, and LTE - with a 2020mAh battery?  HTC must be nuts.  Well, it turns out, they actually aren't nuts and actually do know how to make a phone that doesn't die after half a day off the charging cable teat.  Surprising, I know. 

In a continued quest to bring their handy functionality of the Note line's S Pen, Samsung has again updated the stylus' SDK, this time to 2.2.5 (a 0.0.5 bump over the previous update). 

The update, which Samsung announced through its developer blog early this morning, brings one major feature – Multi Window and its related APIs.  For those who haven't been keeping up with the Note line, Multi Window is a feature by which apps can share the screen by splitting it in half horizontally or vertically, sharing data through the clipboard or – in some cases – with simple drag-and-drop. 

Android 4.2 is out now and it brings a bunch of new goodies.  Multiple users on a tablet, photospheres, and gesture typing are all pretty neat.  What about this Miracast thing, though?  If you're part of the majority of Android users out there, you know that it involves screen sharing and something vaguely to do with WiFi.  Well, here.  Let's clear some of that up for you.