It won’t be a happy holiday for Qualcomm, as the antitrust accusations mount up. The European Commission has sent two Statements of Objections to the US mobile chip giant, accusing it of paying a major customer to use its chipsets exclusively, and of selling its products below cost. Both would be in violation of European competition law and in the latter case, the tactic is said to have been aimed at putting UK-based start-up Icera out of business. Icera, an innovator in the area of software-defined modems, attracted high levels of funding but failed to secure significant market share from Qualcomm. It was acquired by Nvidia in 2011 for $367m, a part of the larger firm’s bid to create a…