It has been 12 years since the first person famously bought a Coke from a specially adapted vending machine in Scandinavia using their mobile phone. Yet, the anticipated  mass market adoption of such mobile wallet services has not taken place.  Alcatel-Lucent hopes to change that, announcing March 23 that it will run a new global hosting service for mobile operators wishing to launch person- to- person payment, remote ticketing and mobile commerce services.Read more