MicroSlate and Arthur Dent Newest Licensees of CIC’s PenDOS and Pen Computing Technology

August 27, 1992 — Communication Intelligence Corp. (NASDAQ:CICI) Thursday announced worldwide license agreements with both Montreal-based MicroSlate Inc. and Massachusetts-based Arthur Dent Associates Inc.

These agreements follow the recent Aug. 24 announcement that CIC had licensed pen computing technologies to Asian computer manufacturing conglomerate, Acer Inc.

MicroSlate will offer CIC’s PenDOS pen operating environment, multilingual Handwriter Recognition Systems, and Handwriter Dynamic Signature Verification System software with its line of Datellite pen-based notepad computers.

These Datellite pen computers are designed to be rugged and are directed at mobile workers for use in field environments, such as the construction, healthcare, transportation, utilities, insurance and public safety industries.

Arthur Dent will include CIC’s PenDOS and multilingual Handwriter Recognition Systems with its WriteAway! trans-parent tablet add-on product for traditional laptop computers. Quickly and easily installed by the user, the WriteAway! tablet immediately brings pencentric benefits to laptop computer users.

“Emerging pen computing companies like Arthur Dent and MicroSlate are focused and move fast. They are well pre-pared to meet the demands of the vertical markets with pen computing solutions,” noted James Dao, president and chief executive officer of CIC. “We are pleased to join them in bringing consumer-ready, advanced pen technology products to market.”

PenDOS is CIC’s fast and memory-efficient pen operating environment — specifically designed for developing new pen-based applications and transforming existing mouse-aware DOS applications into pen-aware applications, without modification.
MicroSlate’s Datellite and Arthur Dent’s WriteAway! hardware combined with CIC’s PenDOS and core technologies — Handwriter Recognition Systems and Handwriter Dynamic Signature Verification — immediately provides users the power of pen computing with proven hardware, handwriting recognizers, and a robust computer security system. These products are currently available and shipping.

“As one of the pioneer developers of software for pen computing, CIC has made great advancements in the area of character recognition. We’re very pleased to offer CIC’s quality products on our Datellite computers,” said William Clough, founder and president of MicroSlate.

“Customers interested in Arthur Dent’s WriteAway! product have actually demanded CIC’s PenDOS pen operating environment,” said Pat Martin, president of Arthur Dent Associates.

“The combination of WriteAway! and PenDOS offers customers an effective solution to the dual challenges of integrating advanced technology into existing applications used in daily business operations, and improving the return on in-vestment in field automation technology. Arthur Dent is pleased to offer CIC’s products to its customers.”

MicroSlate was founded in 1989 to finalized development of and to market Datellite “pen ‘n touch” keyboardless PCs and DataSlate applications generator software, both designed to get information in and out of the field expediently and productively.

Arthur Dent Associates Inc., located in Tewksbury, Mass., is unique in the industry for its transparent digitizer subsystem which converts notebook computers into pen convertibles. Arthur Dent is a privately owned corporation founded in November of 1991. Its mission is to provide cost-effective solutions for improving the man-machine interface in the mobile workplace.

CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, and has a subsidiary in Tokyo. CIC is a leading, worldwide supplier of pen computing products including: multilingual (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese) Handwriter Recognition Systems and Handwriter Dynamic Signature Verification, with interfaces for Windows for Pen Compu-ting, and CIC’s own PenDOS and MacHandwriter pen operating environments.
CIC’s MacHandwriter, a desktop pen extension to the Macintosh computer, is distributed by Apple Japan Inc.
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CONTACT:
Communication Intelligence Corp., Redwood Shores
Germaine Gioia, 415/802-7888
Maurice Boucher, 800/567-5888

Arthur Dent Associates Inc., Tewksbury
Pat Martin, 508/858-3742

MicroSlate Inc.
Jan Rowinski, 514/444-3680