Expected to have few changes before its introduction in 2005, the Vantage brought back the classic V8 engine to allow the company to compete in a larger market.

-the case for, Australian Prescriber 2005 ( note: pharmaceutical company conflict of interest statement at the end )

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

In 2005, the public company was split into 2 companies: Infrabel, which manages the rail network and SNCB itself, which manages the freight and passenger services.

In 2005 Bulgaria had some 6, 238 kilometers of open access track owned by the state company " National Company Railway Infrastructure ", including a 125 kilometers long 760 mm narrow gauge railway-the Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line.

) are operated by the state owned company Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado ( EFE ), which completed a major investment programme in 2005.

On 7 April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the decision to change the name of the parent company to Mandriva and their distribution name to Mandriva Linux, although the Brazilian operation would not change its name from Conectiva immediately.

** Commodore International Corporation, a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005

The private company, Dansk Standard, regulation number 359 of 2005, defines the red colour of the flag as Pantone 186c.

After becoming a subsidiary of GM, the company was named General Motors-Holden's Ltd, becoming Holden Ltd in 1998, with the current name adopted in 2005.

This overall downturn affected Holden's profits ; the company recorded a combined gain of A $ 842. 9 million between 2002 and 2004, and a combined loss of A $ 290 million between 2005 and 2006.

In November 2005, the company became the first in Europe to offer its customers an HSDPA ( 3. 5G ) service.

In turn, that company was partially acquired in 2005 by Pernod Ricard, now the largest spirits distributor in the world since its merger with the Swedish Vin & Sprit in March 2008.

A Komodo dragon at London Zoo named Sungai laid a clutch of eggs in late 2005 after being separated from male company for more than two years.

In November 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed an Alien Tort Claims Act ( ATCA ) case against Bridgestone, the parent company of Firestone, alleging “ forced labor, the modern equivalent of slavery ”, on the Firestone Plantation in Harbel.

In 2005, the company moved away from a search-centric portal and toward a community destination for broadband entertainment content.

In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking ( Brazil ) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase OY, the Finnish company that developed the third-party InnoDB storage engine that allows MySQL to provide such functionality as transactions and foreign keys.

* September 6, 2005: Acquires First Silicon Solutions ( FS2 ), a Lake Oswego, Oregon company as a wholly owned subsidiary.

In 2005, PGP Corporation made its first acquisition — the German software company Glück & Kanja Technology AG, which is now PGP Deutschland AG.

In early October 2005 the company announced acquisition of an 18. 53 % stake in Volkswagen AG ( VW AG ), and disclosed intentions to acquire additional VW AG shares in the future.

The circumstances in which Railtrack had been put into administration were highly controversial, with allegations in Parliament on 24 October 2005 that the company had not been insolvent at the time ( 7 October 2001 ) and therefore that the administration order had been wrongly obtained.

In August 2005, he sold his company, Ronco, to Fi-Tek VII, a Denver holding company, for US $ 55 million.

From 1998 until 2005 the largest shareholder in Saab was the British aerospace company BAE Systems, following its acquisition of a 35 % stake from Investor AB by its predecessor, British Aerospace.

HDMS Absalon ( L16 ) and Esbern Snare ( L17 ) were launched and commissioned by Denmark in 2004 and 2005.

In 2005 The Arbroath Abbey campaign was launched.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

In September 2005, BBCi launched an update to the interactivity available from the BBC's Radio channels on Freeview.

An international version of the countdown was launched on BBC World News on 5 September 2005 featuring more international content and similar music.

Sony officially discourages the payment of real-world money for online goods, except on certain " Station Exchange " servers in EQ2, launched in July 2005.

Cable & Wireless launched " Touch " a GSM 900 mobile service during December 2005.

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

The first experimental satellite, GIOVE-A, was launched in 2005 and was followed by a second test satellite, GIOVE-B, launched in 2008.

GIOVE # GIOVE-A | GIOVE-A was successfully launched 28 December 2005.

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

In 2005 the Irish Government launched Transport 21, a plan envisaging the investment of € 34 billion in transport infrastructure from 2006 until 2015.

In 2005 the RSA launched the Adelphi Charter, aimed at creating an international policy statement to frame how governments should make balanced intellectual property law.

On November 21, 2005 Hezbollah launched an attack along the entire border with Israel, the heaviest in the five and a half years since Israel's withdrawal.

Test production of the Lada 1118 sedan started in November 2004 and full-scale assembly was launched in May 2005.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

* 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

ADSL services were launched in 2005 in Oman through the provider Omantel, the only ISP in Oman.

In March 2005, the U. S. and Oman launched negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement that were successfully concluded in October 2005.

* 2005 – The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

* 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

In September 2005, Playboy launched the online edition of the magazine Playboy Digital.

The busiest, BRT line 1, running on the Nan Zhongzhouxian ( South Central Axis Line ), launched at the end of December 2005.