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Offers information on Hotline Connect, a computer software application by Hotline Communications Ltd., which can upload and download large Internet files, and has the ability to chat in real time simultaneously. How to obtain Hotline Connect; How the application can obtain pirated software and pornography; Creation of the software by Adam Hinkley; Dangers for children. INSET: Pirate Central, by Robert Scott.

Offers technology and Internet related news briefs as of April 3, 2000. Details of the Webcast of Byron Smith's ascent to the peak of Mount Everest, including the use of special software called Cult3D; Opening of the Compaq-Western Center for Computational Research, which has the most powerful supercomputer running the Linux open source operating system in the country; Creation of the online interactive version of the quiz-show 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.'

Reports that United States governmental agencies have expressed interest in Alias/Wavefront's three-dimensional computer software, Maya. Possible use of the software to track the spread of hazardous waste from the collapse of the World Trade Center; How the software takes into account the laws of physics; Details of the software.

Focuses on Vortex computer software, created by Critical Mass Labs in Montreal, Quebec. Use of the software by the United States National Aeronautic & Space Administration's (NASA) Autonomy and Robotics Group to develop a prototype for a Martian rover; Interactive capabilities of the software.

Discusses the use of electronic drawing tablets in which users sketch on a blank, flat surface. How pen strokes create electrical signals that are relayed to a computer, where an image appears; Discussion of Sony's VAIO Slimtop PCV-LX900 Pen Tablet; Cost.

Describes a web site run by RoboMagic Corp. which provides software for Windows-powered personal computers.

Discusses the computer virus entitled 'ILOVE YOU' and the damage that it caused. Explanation of how the virus spread; Comparison of this virus to the Melissa virus of 1999; Efforts of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and international agencies to find the perpetrator; Examples of so-called copycat viruses; Origin of the virus.

Offers information on the computer software Microsoft Windows 2000. Launch of the software; Role of Bill Gates in the marketing of the software; Description of features in the operating system.

Reports the development of the video game `Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy,' distributed by Ubi Soft Entertainment. Basis of the game on problem solving instead of graphic violence; Design of the game by Benoit Sokal, a European comic-book writer; Availability and price: Object of the game.

Focuses on Hotline Communications Ltd. and its Hotline Connect, Internet software that features real-time chat and easy transfers of large files. Difficulties for the company, including use of the application by software pirates and pornography merchants; Creation of the software by Adam Hinkley; the company founded by Hinkley, Jason Roks and others; Comments from Roks.