Fujitsu Bundles CIC’s Handwriter Recognizer with Pen Windows and PenDOS on its 325Point Pen Tablet

August 30, 1993 — Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc., a leading provider of highly integrated systems for mobile computing applications, Monday announced that its 325Point pen tablet now supports (NASDAQ:CICI) Communication Intelligence Corp.’s (CIC) Handwriter Recognition System (HRS) software on both CIC’s PenDOS pen operating system and Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing.

The Fujitsu 325Point is designed for mobile workers involved in decision support activities in a wide range of vertical markets, including consumer packaged goods, utilities, pharmaceuticals, transportation and healthcare.

Weighing three pounds, the Fujitsu/CIC pen system is lightweight and easy to use, and incorporates CIC’s award winning HRS software. Available for U.S. and U.K. English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese languages, the HRS software recognizes handwritten input on pen-based computers, and offers a more natural input style that is especially well suited for portable computing.

“Fujitsu’s alliance with CIC enables us to provide complete integrated solutions for the mobile computing industry,” said Lou Panetta, Fujitsu’s executive vice president. “By integrating CIC’s Handwriter recognition software, we can meet the demands of mobile workers, providing them with field automation systems which are better suited to their market needs.”

“The more natural input style of handwriting as a means of computer input, as well as handwriting recognition’s in-creasing reliability and performance on smaller computer form factors, are paramount to the growing pen computing market,” said James Dao, president and chief executive officer of CIC. “Working with Fujitsu will help us to reach our goal of providing the highest standards of recognition across all pen platforms.”

CIC’s PenDOS pen operating environment is specifically designed to transform major existing mouse-aware DOS applications into pen-aware applications, without modification, as well as to facilitate the development of new pen applications. PenDOS provides an easy-to-use pen user interface, including electronic ink, a pen-based cursor, standard and user-definable pen stroke commands, and a pop-up writing window.

Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., is a leader in providing solutions for data collection and decision support applications through the development of super portable palmtop, pen-based and communicating computers. Its solutions are designed to meet the needs of applications where light weight, small form factor and long battery life are essentials. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd. Fujitsu Personal Systems has North American offices in Santa Clara, Irvine, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Toronto and international offices in England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Sweden.

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 now a leading supplier of pen computing products through-out the world, especially recognized for its multilingual Handwriter Recognition System and Handwriter Dynamic Sig-nature Verification software, and PenDOS and PenMac pen operating environments. CIC’s products allow existing and new pen applications to operate on all major hardware and operating system platforms, including Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, GO’s PenPoint, and CIC’s own PenDOS and PenMac. CIC’s PenDOS and Handwriter Recognition System for PenDOS are distributed and exclusively sub licensed by IBM to pen computer manufacturers world-wide. CIC’s MacHandwriter, a desktop pen extension to the Macintosh computer, is distributed by Apple Japan and other leading personal computer distributors. CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., and has a subsidiary in Tokyo.

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