“Is the pay phone making a comeback?”

1. “Is the pay phone making a comeback?”

2. With the rise of mobile phones over the past decade, pay phones have been disappearing. But thanks to some new initiatives, pay phones may not fade from the landscape. Anyone with a cell phone knows that connectivity is not always guaranteed -- especially not during emergencies, when networks are overloaded. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, which pounded the Northeast in late October, many New Yorkers found themselves without power and without mobile service. To communicate with the rest of the world, they took to pay phones. Pay phone volume across New York City's five boroughs rose tenfold during Sandy. A new NYC initiative seeks to rejuvenate the city's remaining public pay phones.

3. In Other News North Korea has arrested a U.S. citizen for committing an unspecified crime against the country, state media said Friday. Pae Jun Ho entered North Korea on November 3 as a tourist, the official KCNA news agency reported. He was detained and evidence was uncovered proving that he had committed a crime against the country, the news agency said. Pae then confessed to the offense, it said. He faces legal action. How much would you pay to contact a stranger? Facebook is sprucing up its messaging system, and the most interesting change is a move to charge people to send a message to someone outside their network. Most important messages go straight to your inbox on Facebook. But there's a second class of messages, including potential spam and notes from people not in your network, that the site's algorithms deem "less relevant.” These unlucky missives are dropped in the little-known "Other" folder, where they will often spend the remainder of their digital existence unseen, unread and unloved. Facebook is now testing a solution to help messages avoid this limbo. People can pay to circumvent the dreaded "Other" folder and have their messages show up directly in the recipient's inbox. The cost to send one message will be a dollar.