Historical Core Competence Affords CIC Key Competitive Advantage in Emerging Demand for eSignature Deployments Utilizing Mobile Devices

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry* and the recognized leader** in biometric signature verification, expressed today that recent Apple marketing efforts surrounding the introduction of the iPad underscores CIC's unique competitive advantage relative to supporting mobile devices.  

CIC's leadership, and well over a decade of experience, in interfacing with handheld wireless devices including cell phones, PDAs, smartphones, pen tablets and webpads affords the Company a decisive edge in responding to emerging interest and demand for mobile devices for electronic signature deployments.

The Company's electronic signature technology grew out of its leadership position in handwriting recognition and biometric signature technology with products such as "Sign-On" and its award winning "Jot" product, chosen as an embed by leading OEM's such as Fujitsu (pen tablets), HP (PDAs), IBM (Thinkpads), Palm (PDAs), Microsoft (CE OS), and National Semiconductor (WebPADs).

Pioneering eSignature mobile deployments such as Sony/Ericsson's smartphones in 1999 and Oracle/Siebel's mobile CRM for contact administration in 2007 evidence CIC's years of successful mobile device deployments.  Today, CIC has amassed an arsenal of API's and the know-how to interface with virtually any mainstream hardware device, wired or mobile.

"There is increasing interest on the part of end-users and solution providers to leverage handheld and mobile devices including cell phones, laptops, netbooks, webpads and the iPad," stated CIC's Chairman & CEO, Guido DiGregorio.  "This affords us another opportunity to differentiate CIC by sharing our application and implementation know-how along with the discernment required to recommend and deploy hardware interfaces, wired or wireless, for electronic signature deployments, on-premise or hosted, that truly reflect productive, cost effective decisions."

SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0, already deployed by three top-tier insurance companies and several leading ISVs/solution providers, supports mobile devices that include a Web browsing and document presentation capability such as the iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile based phones.

SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 is currently available.  For more information please visit http://www.cic.com/products/signatureone_ceremony/ or contact us directly via email at [email protected].

About CIC

Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") is a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the Financial Industry and the recognized leader in biometric signature verification. CIC's products enable companies to achieve truly paperless work flow in their eBusiness processes by enabling them with "The Power to Sign Online®" with multiple signature technologies across virtually all applications in SaaS and fully deployed delivery models.

Industry leaders such as AGLA, Allstate, American Family, Charles Schwab, Prudential, Snap-on Credit, Travelers, Wachovia, Wells Fargo and WFG (World Financial Group) chose CIC's products to meet their needs. CIC has deployments with over 400 channel partners and enterprises worldwide representing hundreds of thousands of users, with over 500 million electronic signatures captured, eliminating the need for over a billion pieces of paper. CIC sells directly to enterprises and through system integrators, channel partners and OEMs. CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and has a joint venture, CICC, in Nanjing, China. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.cic.com

*In December 2008, CIC was named to Forrester Research's "Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch in 2009" Report.

**In October 2007, CIC was awarded the 2007 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in the dynamic signature verification market.

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CIC's logo, Jot, Sign-On, SignatureOne, Ceremony and the Power to Sign Online are registered trademarks of CIC.  All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

SOURCE Communication Intelligence Corporation