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.

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).

Unfortunaltely, the buffedCast is only available in German language. To listen to it, simply click the link below.

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Listen to episode 71 of the buffedCast

As we begin the new year, Planet TeamSpeak welcomes you to 2008. We hope you had some wonderful holidays.

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.

Congratulations to everyone on the hard-working, creative TeamSpeak development team!

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Winload.de Award 2007 website

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. 

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.

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.

Enjoy the holidays and stay tuned for future updates!

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.

Please report any bugs or unusual behaviour in our forums or contact us via email.

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 - one of our community members and is intended to be a first resource for the french TeamSpeak community.

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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TeamSpeak France website

TeamSpeak France forums

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.

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.

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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AntiVir Virus Definition File History

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.

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.

Some of the other important new features 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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Official TeamSpeak website

Today, Ralf Ludwig - one of the lead developers at TeamSpeak Systems - has published a video of the TeamSpeak 3 client application in the official forums. The 15 second video shows the functionality of the new tray icon which now indicates your current status.

The video also shows some impressions from one of the icon sets which are currently used by the TeamSpeak 3 client. Please note that TeamSpeak 3's current development status is ALPHA so all features shown in this video may differ from those in the final product.

We've uploaded the file to the Google Video website. Click on the link below to see it.

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View the video on the Google Video website