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Bigfoot Networks Partners with TeamSpeak to Enhance Killer Xeno Gaming Network Platform

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:08:18 +0100

On Tuesday, March 24th, Bigfoot Networks - developer of technologies designed to help reduce network latency - announced that they partnered with TeamSpeak to deliver accelerated voice chat on their new Killer Xeno platform. The technology offloads all TS3 voice chat processes to the Killer Xeno architecture, bringing you voice chat with no performance hit in any game you play.
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"We are excited to be working with Bigfoot Networks and delighted thatTeamSpeak 3 will be an integral part of its next-generation Xeno product,"said Florence Espinoza, TeamSpeak director of sales. "TeamSpeak hascatered to the online gaming community for years, attracting the sameextreme and competitive-play users that are attracted to Bigfoot'sproducts. We are confident that the integrated hardware solution we areworking on will meet their demands."
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Bigfoot Networks stated earlier that they know that online gaming and online living are inseparable and that's why they've tackled the things gamers need most on top of gaming - hardware accelerated voice chat, hardware bandwidth control, and a hardware firewall and other tools, all built to run behind the scenes on their NPU (Network Processing Unit).
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Related Links:
Press Release on Marketwire.com (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Bigfoot-Networks-Inc-965467.html)
Bigfoot Networks website (http://www.bigfootnetworks.com)

America's Army 3 Features TeamSpeak 3 Technology

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:35:44 +0100

In yesterdays news and press release, the TeamSpeak development team announced that TeamSpeak 3 will be featured as the integrated voice-communicationsolution for America's Army 3 (AA3). AA is a video game developed by the United States Army and released as a global public relations initiative to help with recruitment.
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"Current America's Army players use TeamSpeak 2 with greatsuccess as it offers them the clear voice communication they need foreffective teamwork," said Michael Bode, AA Executive Producer. "The quality of the TeamSpeak products simply can'tbe beaten. TeamSpeak 3 is becoming the default third-party VoIPsolution on the PC platform. It offers us so many exciting features,and we plan to take advantage of them all, some in the initial releaseand others later with each AA3 expansion pack."
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America's Army 3 uses Unreal Engine 3 and the game developers brought the most popular trademark gameplay features from previous AA releases to AA3.
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"TeamSpeak 3 provides America's Army with a very high quality VoIP system that will make America's Army 3 an even better product," said Bill Perez, lead programmer for AA3. "The TeamSpeak 3 Software Development Kit made the integration of TeamSpeak 3's VoIP system into America's Army 3very fast and easy. The excellent documentation, fast technicalsupport, and easy to follow sample code all combined to make theprocess of integrating TeamSpeak 3 into America's Army 3 an efficient and cost-effective way to add quality VoIP."
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Stay tuned!
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Related Links:
News on TeamSpeak.com (http://teamspeak.com/?page=newsarchive&ident=20090317)
Press Release on TeamSpeak.com (http://teamspeak.com/?page=press&ident=20090317)
America's Army 3 website (http://www.aa3.americasarmy.com/)

German Hardware Magazine Reveals New TS3 Features

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:50:06 +0100

Today, we've great news for the TeamSpeak community. Issue 1/2009 of the PC GAMES Hardware magazine contains an exciting article about the TeamSpeak 3 ALPHA. The PC GAMES Hardware test labs were visited by Ralf Ludwig and Peter Kirk - managing directors of the recently founded TeamSpeak Systems GmbH and lead developers of the TS3 client and server software - and had the exclusive chance to test a pre-release version of TeamSpeak 3.
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"With the latest ALPHA release, the developers have given us a preview on the new TeamSpeak 3. From our view, the voice quality and latency will set new standards." said Lars Craemer - author of the article. "Already the ALPHA release can live up to the expectations to TeamSpeak 3. Reasonable new features in combination with superior voice quality and lower latency are more than enough reasons to switch to TS3."
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TeamSpeak 3 will introduce a new authentication system. Instead of using a combination of username and password, TS3 now uses unique IDs to verify the users identity on all servers. All permissions and settings are bound to this ID so the drama of wannabe hackers guessing the administrators passwords should finally be solved. In addition, every identity can be added to a Friend/Foe list which allows you to mute or ignore annoying users.
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Probably one of the most exciting features is TeamSpeak 3's File Transfer functionality. Depending on your permissions, you'll be able to up- and download files from a channels filebase. This feature offers unimagined possibilities. For example, clan leaders will be able to spread the latest patches for the games they're playing with their team mates. The path to your own TeamSpeak 3 file sharing network is set.
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As a bonus, the arcticle contains some exclusive screenshots, an interview with the developers and additional details about features that were already announced in the past. To read the full article, simply get issue 1/2009 of the PC GAMES Hardware magazine visit the media archive on their website.
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Related Links:
PC GAMES Hardware website (http://www.pcgameshardware.de)

New TeamSpeak 3 Client Screenshots Published

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:37:56 +0100

With todays developer blog entry, the TeamSpeak team not only announced that they're searching some new testers for TeamSpeak 3's closed ALPHA testing phase, but also published some brand new screenshots of the TeamSpeak 3 client software on all three platforms - namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Many users have asked for this in the official TeamSpeak forums for a long time, and now the devs have managed to cleanup the interface and icons enough to be able to present something that doesn't look too bad.
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The new screenshots reveal a few new TS3 features (e.g. the ability to use images in channel descriptions) and help you to get a clearer picture of the features that were already announced before.Please keep in mind that the clients GUI is still work in progress and does NOT show the final product.
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Hit the link below and check out the screenshots on TeamSpeak's developer blog page.
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Related Links:
Developer Blog on TeamSpeak.com (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=blogarchive&ident=20081031)

TeamSpeak Calls for TS3 Linux/Mac OS X Closed Alpha Testers

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:42:26 +0100

Happy Halloween everyone! We've some great news for the TeamSpeak community. Moments ago, the TeamSpeak development team announced that they're searching for a few testers to join the TS3 closed ALPHA test team. At this point the devs are looking for people using Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer) or Linux (x86 or amd64) as their primary Operating System.
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If you're a Windows user, please DO NOT apply for this ALPHA testing phase. TeamSpeak Systems has set up a strong list of requirements as they're searching for new qualified ALPHA testers - not just users. Read these requirements carefully. If you apply although you do not match the testing requirements, the developers might also ignore your applications for further tests.
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Stay tuned to the official TeamSpeak website as a new developer blog entry is currently prepared which will contain some exciting new details about the upcoming TeamSpeak 3 client software.
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Related Links:
Apply for the TeamSpeak 3 Linux/Mac OS X Closed Alpha Test (http://www.teamspeak.com/alpha/)

Major Content Update and TeamSpeak 3 SDK Available on TeamSpeak.com

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:33:36 +0100

In the early morning hours, the official TeamSpeak website has received a major update including some design improvements and lots of new content. With this update, the TeamSpeak website is finally available in German language which is a huge step for the German TS community.
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In addition, the website also announces that the next generation Software Development Kit for TS3 is now available. The TeamSpeak 3 Software Development Kit (SDK) offers a complete integrated solution for onlinegames, virtual worlds, social networks, military simulators, education,or any application where up to thousands of users require crystal clearsimultaneous voice communication. The SDK features cross-platformsupport for Windows (32-Bit and 64-Bit), Mac OS X (Intel and PPC), and Linux (32-Bit and 64-Bit) on both client and server. The TeamSpeak 3 SDK has already shipped in a cross-platform, massively multiplayer game Vendetta Online. Additional titles, services, social networks, virtual worlds, andbusiness applications utilizing the SDK are also in progress and willbe announced soon.
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If you're interested in testing the TS3 SDK, simply request a no obligation, free evaluation version on TeamSpeak's website.
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Related Links:
Request a free evaluation version of the TS3 SDK on TeamSpeak.com (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=request)

Development of TS Admin-Client 2 has been Stopped

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:31:34 +0100

It's been one and a half year since we informed all of you that a new version of the TS Admin-Client is in development. We've formed a team of 20 testers and the software has been in closed ALPHA stage for more than one year. As you might heave read in Thomas (http://forum.planetteamspeak.com/member.php?u=2)' blog, the development has beed paused several times for various reasons. Today, it's my duty to officially announce, that the development of the TS Admin-Client 2 (TSAC2) has been stopped permanently with build 1485.
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Since the public release of TeamSpeak 3 is getting closer each day and most of our team members already have access to it, we want to concentrate our engineering resources on our TS3 related projects. Nevertheless we decided to take Thomas (http://forum.planetteamspeak.com/member.php?u=2)' latest TSAC2 ALPHA build and make it available to the public. An installer package can be found in our download area, but unless any major/critical bugs are found, this will be the first and last public release of the TS Admin-Client 2.
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In comparsion with the first TSAC, the performance of the TS Admin-Client 2 has been increased dramatically. In addition, the software provides new features such as Multi-Tabbed server management, Multi-Select for clients and channels and server profiles.
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Feel free to download and test the software, but please note that it might be unstable. It's not feature-complete and should not be used in a production envirionment. Use the TS Admin-Client 2 at your own risk.�
Releated Links:
Download TS Admin-Client 2.3.3 ALPHA (component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/Itemid,69/gid,101/)

Win a Digital Copy of Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:43:17 +0100

As our first special event in 2008, Planet TeamSpeak and TeamSpeak Systems are offering the chance for you to win a digital download version of Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning (officially abbreviated as WAR), the new MMORPG based on Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy setting.
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Every member of our community who is at least 13 years old canparticipate in this competition. The winner of the competition will bedrawn at random from the collected entries and will get his game key immediately via email. The game client can be downloaded on the official WAR website. This competition closes on October 1st.
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To win the game, click the appropriate link below and answer three simple questions.
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Good luck!
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Update - 1 October 2007
The competition has ended. You are no longer able to participate. The winner is doc_wumsen (http://forum.planetteamspeak.com/member.php?u=1117). Congratulations to you!
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Related Links:
Win a Digital Copy of Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning (content/view/85/96/)

Scheduled Downtime on Friday

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:58:02 +0100

On Friday, August 8th, the Planet TeamSpeak web server will be offline for approximately 3 hours starting at 15:00 PM CEST. This is needed for some critical updates and to set up a database failover scenario. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, and will endeavor to keep this downtime as short as possible. This also affects the Connection Test and Backup Utility applications.
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Just in case you're worried about not being able to access our files, all the downloads are hosted on download.planetteamspeak.com which is another physical server.
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Thank you for your patience during our maintenance work.
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Update - 09 August 2008
We've successfully completed our maintenance activities, the Planet TeamSpeak website is now back online. Please report any bugs or unusual behaviour in our forums or contact us via email.
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Related Links:
Planet TeamSpeak download area (http://download.planetteamspeak.com)

TeamSpeak Systems and Guild Software announced Integration of TeamSpeak 3 within Vendetta Online

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:36:32 +0100

On July 1st, 2008, the TeamSpeak Systems GmbH and Guild Software, Inc -independent game developer and creator of multiplayer virtualenvironments - announced the integration of TeamSpeak 3 software withinVendetta Online - a 3D space combat MMO for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. This is the first roll-out for this kind of integration and ideal production test-case for the TS developers, as Vendetta Online is one of a small number of true multi-platform games. Newcomers are welcome to visit the official Vendetta Online website and sign up for a free trial account.
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"Our goal was to rapidly integrate TeamSpeak across all of oursupported platforms: Windows, Linux/32bit, Linux/64bit, and universalMac OS X. TeamSpeak delivered brilliantly on all counts." said John Bergman, CEO of Guild Software, Inc. By using the TeamSpeak 3 SDK, Vendetta Online became the first launchedMMO with integrated voice chat across their game clients on eachplatform.
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In addition to this joint effort, the TeamSpeak team is currently working on other integrationprojects ranging from military simulators to financial institutions, aswell as other online games and virtual worlds.
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Related Links:
News on TeamSpeak.com (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=newsarchive&ident=20080701)
Press Release on TeamSpeak.com (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=press&ident=20080701)
Vendetta Online website (http://www.vendetta-online.com)

Triton CI & Associates provides new Online Services

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:16:44 +0100

As of today, Triton CI & Associates - the official sales & licensing partner of TeamSpeak - provides two new pages on their website. The first page called Licensed NPOs contains a list of all properly licensed Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs), which have been granted a special license that allows them to hostmore than 10 TeamSpeak servers at a time and between 1000 to 5000slots total.
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Probably the most exciting feature is the new Licensed IP Validation page.�If you suspect that a TeamSpeak 2 server is being hosted illegally, you can use the script� to verify if an IP address is properly licensed. Due to security and performance reasons, you are limited to 10 searches every 5 minutes.
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Update - 09 April 2007
Today, the guys from Triton CI & Associates have set up a new ticket system. From now on, anyone sending an email to sales@tritoncia.com (mailto:sales@tritoncia.com) or piracy@tritoncia.com (mailto:piracy@tritoncia.com) should receive an auto-response containing an assigned ticket ID. You can also submit a new ticket using Triton's new Support Center website.�
Related Links:
Licensed IP Validation on TritonCIA.com (http://sales.tritoncia.com/checkip.php)
Support Center on TritonCIA.com (http://support.tritoncia.com/)

Official TeamSpeak 3 FAQ Opened

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:03:01 +0100

We're happy to announce that the first official TS3 FAQ has been opened on the official TeamSpeak website. Besides the usual questions about TS3's release date and voice quality, the FAQ section features some interesting factsabout backward compatibility and migration from TeamSpeak 2 to TeamSpeak 3.
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The most important information is TeamSpeak 3 will in no way be compatible to TeamSpeak 2 beacuse the complete core and the protocol itself have been completely re-engineered and the TeamSpeak 3 server introduces a new database structure. The developers intend to provide migration tools to convert basic information such as a servers name, the welcome message, channel data and password settings.
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Currently the FAQ section contains 8 entries. If you're interested in reading all of them, please check the official TeamSpeak website.
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Related Links:
TeamSpeak 3 FAQ on TeamSpeak.com (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=faq&cat=ts3)

GIGA eSports presents Voice Communication Software Solutions for Gamers

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:00:00 +0100

So far, it's been an exciting weekend for the TeamSpeak community in Germany. After yesterday's interview in the buffed.de podcast, TeamSpeak had a second appearance in the media. Today, GIGA introduced several voice communication software solutions in the latest episode of GIGA eSports. Our good friend ginger|HFD (http://forum.planetteamspeak.com/member.php?u=5) was invited to the show to talk with the host Michael 'riCo' Bister about Ventrilo, Shockvoice, Mumble and last but not least TeamSpeak 2. In addition, the host had a short telephone interview with one of the TeamSpeak 3 developers - Peter Kirk.
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In case you've missed the show or just want to watch it over and over again, you'll find a high quality version in GIGA's VoD (Video on Demand) section. We've also uploaded an 11 minute-long video of the presentation to our download server. The link can be found in our forums.
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Related Links:
Review of the show on the GIGA.DE website (http://www.giga.de/show/esports/00143179_giga_esports_vom_2627_januar/)
According thread in the Planet TeamSpeak forums (http://forum.planetteamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=492)

buffedCast #71 features Interview with TeamSpeak 3 Developers

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:14:50 +0100

Today, buffed.de - a large MMO-portal from Germany - published episode 71 of their weekly podcast, called buffedCast. Besides some MMO topics related to World of WarCraft, The Lord of the Rings Online and Mythos, the episode contains an interessting interview with the two lead developers of TeamSpeak 3 - Ralf Ludwig and Peter Kirk.
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The host is asking his two guests about TS3's voice quality and latency, the built-in denoiser, 5.1 surround sound capabilites and the Tabbed Voice-Comming feature. The interview starts at the end of the official cast (after 68 minutes and 40 seconds to be exact).
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Unfortunaltely, the buffedCast is only available in German language. To listen to it, simply click the link below.
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Related Links:
Listen to episode 71 of the buffedCast (http://www.buffed.de/features/442/buffedcast-mp3?folge=71)

TeamSpeak Receives Winload.de Award 2007

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:05:21 +0100

As we begin the new year, Planet TeamSpeak welcomes you to 2008. We hope you had some wonderful holidays.
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The new year started with a bang for TeamSpeak Systems. On December 17th, 2007, the TeamSpeak 2 client received the Winload.de Award 2007 for being last year's most downloaded Freeware application. With more than 998.988 downloads in just over a year, the TeamSpeak 2 client has left other popular software like BearShare and Apple's QuickTime Player far behind.
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Congratulations to everyone on the hard-working, creative TeamSpeak development team!
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Related Links:
Winload.de Award 2007 website (http://www.winload.de/specials/award_2007/)

Seasons Greetings and a Preview for 2008

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:37:51 +0100

Another year has almost passed. To all our community members and visitors, both old and new, we extend our best wishes for the holidays, and a warm invitation to join us again in 2008. In addition, we are happy to announce our plans for the new year.�
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It's needless to say that we constantly work hard to improve our existing applications such as the TS Admin-Client, the TS2PerlMod, the TeamSpeak 2 Anti-Flood Daemon and the TeamSpeak 2 Webmanager (also known as T2Web). Beside all of this, we have many ideas for new projects. Probably the most exiting project is code named Optimus - a fully featured web-based management solution for TeamSpeak servers which will hopefully set some new standards. We'll publish a limited set of features and a full roadmap soon.
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Currently, we are working on a fresh new design for our website which will be up in early 2008. As you can see, exciting things are on the Planet TeamSpeak horizon.
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Enjoy the holidays and stay tuned for future updates!

The Code Snippets are Back

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:01:27 +0100

Today, we've reactivated our Code Snippets page which we had to disable a few months ago due to the high rate of pastebin spamming. The Code Snippets page allows you to upload your source code to share it with other members of the community.
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Please report any bugs or unusual behaviour in our forums or contact us via email.

Announcing the TSF (TeamSpeak France) Project

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:01:12 +0100

We at Planet TeamSpeak are happy to announce the availability of a new website dedicated to TeamSpeak. The project called TSF (TeamSpeak France) was started by Bloody-wave (http://forum.planetteamspeak.com/member.php?u=550) - one of our community members and is intended to be a first resource for the french TeamSpeak community.
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On the TeamSpeak France website, you'll find the latest news related to TeamSpeak and french versions of various third party applications and scripts. As a special feature, TeamSpeak France is also providing translated versions of the TeamSpeak 2 Connection Test and TeamSpeak 2 Backup Utility websites.
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Related Links:
TeamSpeak France website (http://www.teamspeak-france.org)
TeamSpeak France forums (http://forum.teamspeak-france.org)

Avira AntiVir detects TS Admin-Client as Virus

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:19:58 +0100

During the last two days, several users of Avira AntiVir have informed us of a possible virus issue with version 1.1 of the TS Admin-Client. The antivirus solution reports the TS Admin-Client's main executable as a virus called SPR/Tool.TSAdmin. It seems like the application has been added to Avira's signature database on October 9th, 2007 at 17:23.
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This is a false positive - meaning that there has never been any malicious code in the TS Admin-Client. We've already sent an email to Avira hoping that this issue can be resolved without any more inconvenience.
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Update - 15 October 2007
Today, we've received an email from Avira. The TS Admin-Client will be removed from Avira's signature database with one of the next updates.
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Related Links:
AntiVir Virus Definition File History (http://www.avira.com/de/threats/section/vdfhistory/vdf_no/7.00.00.64/7.00.00.64.html)

New TeamSpeak Website now Live

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:34:08 +0100

This morning, the official TeamSpeak website has received a major update. TeamSpeak.com is now coming up with an entirely new design and a massive amount of new content. Like all previous versions, the new website is based on a self-made Content Management System which is now capable of handling multiple languages. The german content is currently beeing prepared and will be published soon.
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With the launch of the new website, the TeamSpeak team officially announced TeamSpeak 3 - their upcoming, next generation product. Apart from the information presented in their blog, the new content reveals that there will be a TeamSpeak 3 Corporate Edition (CE) which features encrypted VoIP technology. TeamSpeak 3 CE is intended as business version of the core product and will not be available until sometime after the initial TeamSpeak 3 core product and SDK is released.
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Some of the other important newfeatures of the website are the new Market Share and Media Kit pages. To take a look at the new website, please follow our related links.
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Related Links:
Official TeamSpeak website (http://www.teamspeak.com)