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

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Various topics:

Randall Schwartz and Floss Weekly vs Wikipedia

A Visit to HD Communication Summit near Paris

Google buzz and the privacy concerns surrounding it

General geolocation revelation issues and how location works via wifi

Comparing Amazon, Apple customer service and resolution of issues with Orange. All are very large companies, yet the first two manage to resolve most issues with 24 hours for me (Zeeek) whereas Orange didn’t in six weeks of repeated phone calls.

IRC Links

[5:49pm] ChanServ: [#vuc] Welcome to the VoIP Users Conference (VUC).
[5:50pm] steely_glint: Down side of Buzz – (NSFW F-bombs in the URL) (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc)
[6:28pm] DFrankel: Conference Agenda: http://dev.hdcomms.com/event-schedule
[6:32pm] steely_glint: NSFW Irate blog on buzz (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc)
[6:37pm] RandalSchwartz: … http://www.google.com/profiles/realmerlyn
[6:49pm] kfife: http://www.pddnet.com/news-miniature-six_axis-robot-at-md-and-m-show-021210/
[7:24pm] Zeeek:        http://www.3cx.com/phone-system/downloadlinks.html
[7:24pm] ricko73: http://www.vertical.com/products-televantage.html <–here’s the other one
[8:13pm] Zeeek: dan_lane:  http://www.8774e4voip.com/panasonic_kx_tgp550t04_p/panasonic-kx-tgp550.htm
[8:15pm] maximCH: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html
[9:18pm] Zeeek: you should beconme a fan of VUC page: http://facebook.com/voipusers
[9:55pm] CompleteTech: using http://visualroute.visualware.com/ seems ok
[9:55pm] maximCH: France Telecom http://www.google.com/finance?q=EPA:FTE

Yep, three of them, count ‘em, three SIP xcleints should be g722 capable soon for the Mac (and linux and windows).

I have been testing (and/or talking to the authors of) these:

Blink (Mac OS X only, )

Zoiper (SIP/IAX Linux, Mac, Win)

Telephone (Mac OS X only)

They all use pjsip which caused some distortion problems at first. This thread in the Asterisk-dev mailing list sheds some light on the issues to change.

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Heroic efforts were required to produce this live call and edit it, and it will take patience and strong will to listen to it because of the noise and levels. We post it here because a lot of interesting things were said by participants (in random order) Tim Panton, Darrick Hartmann, Barry Kline, Philippe Lindheimer, Fred Posner, Zoa, David Duffet and whoever else wandered in.

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All in all, Digium did a great job in organizing the event with compelling content, fun, good food, and a space where people with our shared interests can gather and basically bother Allison Smith for three whole days.

IRC TRanscript 20091016

MP3 Link

Session Recording:

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The VUC mailing list is a Google Group

IRC: #voip-users-conference on Freenode.net

irc Transcript 2009-08-21

From the discussion on the Asterisk biz list, a quick look at how these things are financed, how to hook them up and whatever else comes up.

IPKall.com

Sipgate.com (also .co.uk, .de)

Google Voice

MP3 Link

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IRC Transcript 2009-08-14

We referred a lot to the HD Connect Now site.

This week, Doug Mohney joins us. Doug has clocked more than 20 years of experience in the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) arena between working in real world businesses and writing about them.

His resume includes Editor in Chief, Telecom and Digital Media Group for a B2B emedia company and Editor-in-Chief at VON Magazine (the pulvermedia incarnation, not the Virgo one). Publications he’s written for over the past dozen years include Boardwatch, Mobile Radio Technology/Urgent Communications, The Inquirer, and VON Magazine, covering telecommunications, the Internet, and online video.

His hands-on/real-world experience includes stints at two high-tech start-up companies, one that went public (DIGEX) and one that didn’t (SkyCache/Cidera). Joining DIGEX as employee number 10 in 1993, Doug had a ring-side seat to the trials and tribulations of a fast growing, VC-funded startup doing the boom growth years of the Internet.

Some of Doug’s articles.

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Part 2: Yate and g722 [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-227343.mp3]

YATE with Diana Cionoiu, who always shoots from the hip. Yate is an open source software developed with reliability, scalability and flexibility in mind for tomorrow’s telephony networks. I guarantee an interesting call this week, but then we always have interesting calls, right? Otherwise, why would they last up to four hours like today’s call?Here is a link to Diana’s presentation at Asterisk Tag 2008. She was also at AMOOCON 2009, here’s the page for her presentation. (Almost all the presentations are now available on the AMOOCON site. Nice work, Stefan!)

Acting upon the suggestion of our group, here is the IRC transcript of the call which again lasted over 4 hours.

IRC Transcript 2009-05-22

Part 2: Yate and g722

[audio:http://voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/amoocondiscussion.mp3|titles=AMOOCON 2009, Tim Panton, John Todd, Russell Brand, Kevin Fleming...]

Although I managed to herd a great group of people into the speakers’ lounge and record a wide-ranging discussion, the first part was lost due to a software glitch on the recorder. It seems that the low battery level shut things down and ditched the file. The part posted here is only the second hour (heh) but there are some interesting things to hear.

Topics covered include codecs, video, Skype for Asterisk, teleconference robots, “robot Mark”, presence, stereo codecs, and lots more. One side (Zoa, Diana Cionoiu etc) rags on the iPhone, the other side says “get used to it”.

MP3 DOWNLOAD LINK

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Daniel Berninger – Washington, DC based independent technolgy analyst. Expert in technical and regulatory aspects of Internet enabled disruptive communications. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon , HP, and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications. He won the 1999 VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and worked on the founding of ITXC , Vonage , and Free World Dialup . Daniel gets quoted frequently on regulatory, antitrust, and VoIP matters.

Dan’s last visit on September 14, 2007 is here.

Here are a few articles about wideband:

Wideband Audio Codecs Gaining Steam,

Wideband Audio Boosts VoIP Quality

G.722, WideBand Audio

Download: Part 1 Part 2
IRC Transcript 2009-04-24

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ZipDX enterprise conference solutions

ZipDX is a wideband (g722) conference server. We talk about the possibilities. This turned into a long term thing. To join the VUC weekly calls in g722, call 200901@login.zipdx.com