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You certainly know the situation where you are torturing your brain is search for an actor, place, director which have appeared in a movie or a TV show. Or you know a fragment of the story or an artifact being important for the movie. On the other hand you probably know the situation as well where you hear or see some name or place or any other item in a movie and you are asking yourself: "What's that, again"? Well, in case you do not care, we can't help you either.

While visiting IFA a few weeks back with all it's smart and less smart blessings we thought it might be a good idea to run a quick survey on how the so called “digital natives” deal with television and how they judge the recent developments. So, if you feel like a digital native (even if you don't we wouldn't mind ) please take some minutes and visit our quick poll. Thanks! 

Well, we have been somewhat sluggish with our website over the last few months. As we had to deliver upon a major customer project, all our folks have been occupied delivering the code. To all our friends and fans - we're still there. And, as always, pretty busy... BTW, if you know someone who would like to work in a dynamic and REALLY customer driven environment - we are hiring again (see our jobs section).

On March 3rd, 2010 and within the high-tech setting of Cebit, the world largest computer show in Hannover, Germany, State Secretary Hans-Joachim Otto awarded vfree.tv with one of the five main awards of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology for innovative new business ideas in the area of multimedia.

In a highly competitive setup, marking an all-time-high of 212 submissions, vfree.tv was selected to be one of the top 5 companies who convinced the jury by its outstanding concept, technology and business plan. In an award ceremony, opened by the CIO of Lufthansa, Dr. Thomas Endres, the importance of a vivid startup-culture was highly emphasized. "There are still too few people with promising business ideas who take the risk to establish a company and to run their own business. The support for creating new businesses will therefore become one of the important cornerstones of the current legislative period" said State Secretary Hans-Joachim Otto. Handing over the award to vfree.tv he especially highlighted the excellent fit between the effort of the German government to substantially increase the broadband coverage until 2014 and the innovative service concept submitted by vfree.tv. "This is exactly what we are looking for", he said.