On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat its existing algorithm, Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10 %.

On April 4, 2006, Netflix filed a patent infringement lawsuit in which it demanded a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Blockbuster's online DVD rental subscription program violated two patents held by Netflix.

In 2006, the on-line movie company Netflix held the first " Netflix Prize " competition to find a program to better predict user preferences and beat its existing Netflix movie recommendation system by at least 10 %.

* Appeared in a commercial for Netflix in 2006 playing a mobster.

From 2006 to 2009, Netflix sponsored a competition, offering a grand prize of $ 1, 000, 000 to the team that could take an offered dataset of over 100 million movie ratings and return recommendations that were 10 % more accurate than those offered by the company's existing recommender system.

From 2008 to 2012, Netflix featured Starz content on its " Watch Instantly " streaming service under the branding StarzPlay, which also featured most of the network's original programming and series content acquired by Starz from domestic and international distributors ; it was the third subscription video-on-demand online streaming service operated by Starz: Starz Ticket operated from 2004 to 2006, under a joint venture between Starz Entertainment and RealNetworks.

A similar deal in late 2006 between Blockbuster, Genius Products and The Weinstein Company had been partially thwarted when Netflix and other retailers were able to buy DVDs via wholesale " sell-through ".

Netflix will sponsor an outdoor showing of " Field of Dreams " at the namesake Iowa ballfield on August 11, 2006.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

# Internet access, held by Armentel until September 2006

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

In 2006 it was held in three cities: Caracas ( Venezuela ), Bamako ( Mali ), and Karachi ( Pakistan ).

The last congressional elections were held on December 11, 2006.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

Prior to the creation of the group management board in 2006, HSBC's chairman essentially held the duties of a chief executive at an equivalent institution, while HSBC's chief executive served as the deputy.

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

2006 — Parliamentary elections held.

By late 2006, HP had retook the # 1 sales position of PCs from Dell, which struggled with missed estimates and poor quality, and has held that rank ever since.

A constitution was approved by voters and on 30 July 2006 the Congo held its first multi-party elections since independence in 1960.

A new election was held on 29 October 2006, which Kabila won with 70 % of the vote.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a Dada exhibition in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C. and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.

Hofstadter was also an invited panelist at the first Singularity Summit, held at Stanford in May 2006.

* Archive of the international conference " Deconstructing Mimesis-Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe " about the work of Lacoue-Labarthe and his mimetic version of deconstruction, held at the Sorbonne in January 2006

A presidential election was held on 15 October 2006 and November 26, 2006.

It was readmitted to the Commonwealth in December 2001, following the parliamentary election held to restore democracy in September that year, and is currently suspended again after the 2006 coup.

During the first 11 months of 2006, net imports grew by 21 percent to $ 1. 95 billion, while exports stood at $ 895 million, up 0. 3 percent from the same period in 2005.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

During the first 11 months of 2006, U. S .- Armenian trade totaled $ 152. 6 million.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

The Diamondbacks announced in early September 2006 that their uniforms, which remained largely unchanged since the team's first season, would be completely redesigned for the 2007 season.

* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

Deliveries started in 2006 with the first aircraft arriving in October 2006.

After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">

In 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal Bishop of Nevada, became the first woman to become the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

This reaction was first studied in 2006 at the LBNL as part of their systematic study of fusion reactions using < sup > 238 </ sup > U targets.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

In January 2006 Chileans elected their first woman president, Michelle Bachelet, of the Socialist Party.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.