CIC Announces Agreement With KPMG BayMark Capital LLC To Develop Worldwide Strategic Business Alliances.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 1996-- Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC) (OTC Bulletin Board:CICI) announced today that it has engaged KPMG BayMark Capital LLC to assist in the establishment of a global strategic business alliance network for distribution, sales, licensing, joint development, low cost manufacturing, and financing.

The goal of building this alliance network is to achieve CIC's vision of establishing its pen computing products and technologies as industry standards worldwide.

"We intend to make our vision a reality by forming a series of strategic business alliances, on a worldwide basis. We are seeking partners whose strengths are synergistic with CIC's strong product and technology position," said James Dao, chairman and CEO of Communication Intelligence Corp.

The Company

Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC) develops, markets, and licenses natural input computer technology -- products that use pen and image for input. Founded in 1981, CIC is a leading supplier of pen computing products to hardware manufacturers throughout the world, particularly its multilingual Handwriter(R) Recognition System and Handwriter(R) Dynamic Signature Verification(TM) software, PenDOS(R) and PenMac(R) pen operating environments.

CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, and has subsidiaries in Japan and China. CIC's stock is publicly traded on the OTC Bulletin Board, symbol CICI. -0-

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CONTACT: Communication Intelligence Corporation, Redwood Shores

Maurice Boucher, 604/689-8588