REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation (Nasdaq: CICI) ("CIC"), and Mbrane (Nasdaq: CNTR, effective 3/16/01 MBRN) announced today that they have entered into a licensing agreement for CIC's InkTools(R), its electronic signature software development kit and handwriting recognition offerings. The partnership brings together two leaders in the wireless solutions market to deliver a comprehensive offering to business customers.

InkTools will be bundled into Mbrane's revolutionary Mbrane Touchpoint Solution, which works as a membrane that securely extends the enterprise IT environment to interactively connect mobile employees and embedded devices to enterprise resources. The Mbrane Touchpoint platform adapts to the enterprise and meets its security needs by enabling real-time verification of users before providing access to sensitive corporate data/servers. Mbrane will offer CIC's handwriting recognition offerings including Jot(R), WordComplete(TM), QuickNotes(TM) and Sign-On(TM) to its corporate customers, and bundling the applications directly onto handheld devices where Mbrane provides a turnkey mobile solution to the enterprise marketplace.

Guido DiGregorio, CIC's President and CEO stated, "Leveraging the strengths of our combined offerings will create new opportunities in the enterprise space including field sales force automation. Mbrane's adoption of CIC's electronic signature and online verification technology provides the wireless user a faster more secure way of verification, authentication and protection for sensitive corporate data. We are pleased to work closely with Mbrane to deliver leading- edge wireless solutions throughout the world."

Mbrane's CEO, Scott Broomfield, commented, "We are impressed with CIC's technologies, and feel that their security products, in conjunction with our mobile computing platform, will provide our customers with a secure solution that will meet their increasing mobile business needs for wireless computing and related data access. We feel that CIC's technology provides our Mbrane Touchpoint Solutions with the superior security elements demanded by this industry."