Motorola is getting into the Christmas spirit by trash-talking the actual ten commandments, along with …

AT&T took another step toward filling out its 4G wireless broadband strategy with the announcement yesterday that it plans to spend $1.9 billion to buy wireless spectrum from chipmaker Qualcomm. The new spectrum will be used to help build the carrier’s next generation LTE network. This is the same technology that Verizon Wireless is using to build its 4G network. …

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes’ bio below. After more than a year of palace dramas worthy of a Shakespeare play, the FCC voted this morning to impose new rules on Internet access providers aimed at “preserving the open Internet.” Today’s action is both anticlimactic and incomplete. Despite soap opera hand-wringing the last three weeks from …