With the notion of the paperless office fading into history, researchers from the University of Washington are working to more closely integrate the paper world -- still on the rise -- with the world of electronic data.

Madison Avenue is walking a fine line in determining its response to the South Asian tsunami. Advertisers, agencies and media companies are seeking ways to show that they care, but they are also striving to avoid the appearance of capitalizing on the disaster for commercial gain.

A handful of new and soon-to-be-released devices enable music listeners to automatically record tracks from satellite radio broadcasts onto hard drives or portable music players such as the iPod. While the recording industry has publicly decried such activities for terrestrial radio, analysts say it has a financial reason for remaining silent about satellite radio recording. Satellite radio broadcasters XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio each deliver more than 100 channels of music, sports and news in high-quality digital audio streams to home, portable and automobile receivers.

When one of the biggest Chinese makers of television sets and its distributor in the United States run into financial trouble, should American consumers worry? No, say industry experts, who note that low-priced conventional TV's are now such generic commodities that the market is not much affected when any single manufacturer stumbles.

A deal that would name the veteran talent manager Brad Grey to head Paramount Pictures, a studio that has suffered a string of box office flops in recent years, is almost finished, people involved in it said Sunday.

In 2005, there's a good chance you or someone you know will buy a digital television set and a satellite radio and purchase a movie at home using a remote control or laptop. In the newspapers (strike that -- on the Internet), you'll read more about radio and television indecency and may very well see the Supreme Court take the first step toward tossing out the federal regulations that have kept NBC from looking more like HBO.

Quick: What channel is MTV2 on your cable system? You don't know? Go on, ask your kids (I'll wait). You need to find out, and to tune in, because the Viacom-owned music network is home to one of the most innovative shows on TV, a self-described (by its host) "cross-breeding bastard" of a program that is a captivating experiment in branded entertainment.

Cadillac is about to bet big-time that in five seconds, it can convince consumers of one unlikely selling point: Its cars are darned fast. The General Motors division on Monday will announce plans to broadcast a series of five-second TV spots that show vehicles from its new lineup accelerating from zero to 60 miles per hour. An off-camera announcer will remark: "How fast? That fast!"

Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, the general manager of Al Arabiya, a 24-hour satellite-news channel broadcasting from Dubai, has six plasma-screen TV's in his office on the floor of the channel's glowing, ultramodern newsroom set. They are always on. One is tuned to Al Arabiya itself, and depending on where the cameras are placed, Al-Rashed sometimes catches a glimpse of himself, pacing around his desk on his cellphone. Another shows Al Jazeera, the channel's main competition.