Alcatel-Lucent

Apple is being sued among other companies by the Alcatel-Lucent backed Multimedia Patent Trust (MPT) that submitted its filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday. The lawsuit accuses the Cupertino along with Canon, LG Electronics and TiVo of infringing MPT’s patents on video compression.

Alcatel-Lucent’s Youth Lab - a research arm limited to those born between 1977 and 1998 - found that almost 90% of young people would like to pay a monthly fee for a mobile-phone wallet, mainly for the privilege of not having to wait in line for movie tickets.

The survey polled over 200 participants, spread over 10 countries and self selected. Some insight into the demographic may be gleaned from the fact that a third of the participants had already used their mobile phone to buy bus or rail tickets, and almost the same figure to pay for parking.

 Alcatel-Lucent in association with its venture, touchatag and Clear2Pay, a global payment solutions provider, have partnered for the launch of a mobile payment framework for mobile operators.

Under this framework initiative users will be able to make purchases, buy tickets or transfer money using their mobile phone. For example, by placing a Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled mobile phone over scanners at a point-of-sale terminal, a user can use his phone as a wallet.