Todd Carothers, Counterpath’s senior vice president, marketing and products, will demonstrate the recent release of Bria 3.2. Todd will review new features as well as discuss how this release sets up the foundation for release 4.0. Todd will also present Counterpath’s Mobility product suite,  specifically Bria Android Edition updates, Bria iPhone Edition 2.0 and Bria iPad Edition 1.0.

Bria is a highly secure, standards-based, multi-platform softphone that enables voice and high-definition video calls, making it ideal for enterprises, government agencies and other organizations that want to replace their desk phones or add unified communications functionality to their existing IP phone platform.

New to Bria 3.2

* Multiple Account Integration
o Communicate with contacts from different sources and accounts, including local or company directories, Microsoft Outlook, XMPP, XCap or WebDav servers.
o Merge contacts into a single view with all of their information from different sources in the same place.
o View a contact’s presence status on their various accounts in order to choose the communication method to reach them best.
* Bria Add-in for Outlook® (Windows Only)
o Make calls directly from Microsoft Outlook® emails and contacts
o View missed calls and new voicemail notifications directly in Microsoft Outlook®
o Control main Bria functions directly in Microsoft Outlook®
* Company Chat Rooms
o Join company chat rooms for conferences and meetings
* Improved Contact Management, Display, Sound Controls (Volume and Mute) and Workgroup functions

This week week have another VUC double-header! Starting at 1pm EDT we will be joined by Todd Carothers, VP of Product Management at Counterpath.

Following the recent announcement of Bria 3.0 for Linux, Counterpath are this week celebrating the launch of their Bria soft phone for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

The software is already available from Apple’s iTunes store, so by Friday all you iPhone-toting Apple-philes should have it loaded and be ready to share your initial experience with the release.

Here’s a quote from that release about the tech specs:

Key features include:

•    Full SIP compliance, enabling use with any SIP-compliant server and hundreds of ITSPs that currently offer CounterPath-based services.
o    Appears as another endpoint to service providers or PBX equipment, enabling fast, cost-effective deployments.
•    Call quality that’s superior to circuit-switched wireline and wireless voice, and based on the G.711, G.729 and GSM codecs.
•    An intuitive user interface that provides one-touch access to voicemail, call history, speakerphone and other frequently used telephony features such as 4-digit dialing.
•    Support for DTMF, which lets users enter numbers to access an auto attendant.
•    Bluetooth support, enabling hands-free calling for convenience, as well as safety while driving.
•    Multi-call management options, including the ability to switch between, merge and split calls, all in ways that are already familiar to iPhone users so they can start using these features immediately.
•    Signaling and call encryption via TLS and SRTP, enabling enterprise-class security.
•    Optional customized branding available for enterprises and telephony providers.

We will be welcoming Bria Product Director Todd Carothers to the VUC in a second segment on Jan 29th at 1PM EST.

From this press release:

CounterPath and Digium(R) Launch Asterisk-Based Multimedia Softphone

Based on open standards, Bria for Asterisk combines Digium’s Asterisk, AsteriskNOW and Asterisk Business Edition telephony platforms with Bria Professional, CounterPath’s enterprise-class, multimedia softphone. Bria for Asterisk gives users advanced telephony features, yet can be quickly set up and configured with any Asterisk deployment.

The VUC is officially testing Bria on Windows and OS X and we hope provide valuable feedback to Counterpath during this launch.

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Yet another group of geeks discuss the iPad
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