In February 2006, the group became 100 % owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi SA when Vivendi purchased the last 20 % from Matsushita, the group's sole owner from 1990 to 1995 and co-owner from 1995 to 2006.

Examples of such findings include the following WIPO cases: Webpass, Inc. v. Paul Breitenbach ( 2010 ), Urban Logic, Inc. v. Urban Logic, Peter Holland ( 2009 ), David Robinson v. Brendan ( 2008 ), Decal v. Gregory Ricks ( 2008 ), Hero v. The Heroic Sandwich ( 2008 ), Poker Host Inc. v. Russ “ Dutch ” Boyd ( 2008 ), FCC Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas v “ FCC. COM ” ( 2007 ), Liquid Nutrition v. liquidnutrition. com ( 2007 ), Rohl, LLC v. ROHL SA ( 2006 ), and Deutsche Welle v. DiamondWare ( 2000 ).

In December 2006, Thomson SA agreed to sell off its Audio / Video and Accessories businesses ( the RCA and Thomson brands except communications products such as cordless phones ) to Audiovox.

* U * SA * HA * NA: Dream Ballerina ( 2006 )— with Asahi Production

In September 2006 the company announced a takeover bid of $ 13. 2 billion for Serono SA, Switzerland's largest biotech firm.

SA has been involved in organising within anti-war campaign groups such as the Stop the War Coalition and has participated in demonstrations across the country, including the protests against the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the 2008-2009 war on Gaza, the 2007 APEC Conference, the 2006 G20 Summit, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and have been involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and solidarity actions with the Arab Spring.

* 2006 Keith Sheehy ( SA )

In 2006, the two SA Family First MLCs voted against the Statutes Amendment ( Domestic Partners ) Bill.

On 16 November 2006, VimpelCom acquired the 90 % share of ArmenTel CJSC held by the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA ( OTE ) for € 341. 9 million.

On 29 December 2006, all subsidiaries based in Ile de France were merged under the name of Altran Technologies SA, a technology consultant, which was organized into four business lines ( as well as brand names ):

* In September 2006, Yara bought 50 percent of the Geneva-based trading company Balderton Fertilisers SA.

Following DUCT lobbying, the Msunduzi District Municipality has commenced on a 10 million rand ( SA currency ) program to repair and improve the sewage system in 2006.

* Marfleet, Brian, ( 2006 ), The Morgan Project, Society for Underwater Historical Research, Port Adelaide, SA ( ISBN 0 9588006 5 0 ).

The coalition was continued in 1998 – 2006 by of UV and the Democrats of the Left ( DS ), with the support of two regionalist parties, the Edelweiss Aosta Valley ( SA ) and the Autonomist Federation ( FA ), in 1998-2001.

File: MarkParnell. jpg | Mark Parnell, SA Greens MLC elected in 2006.

Originally elected as a Labor member, Hanna defected to the SA Greens in 2003 before becoming an independent in 2006.

In 2006, along with Bouygues Télécom and Orange SA, SFR was ordered to pay € 535 million in fines for the formation of an illegal cartel ( see Le Canard enchaîné ).

Adelaide Lightning traditionally a part of the State Association were also privately brought in 2006 when the State Government took over the two league teams that had been managed and controlled by Basketball SA.

As a result of this merger, Kilmer became a significant shareholder in Lafarge NA, and Tanenbaum served on the Board and chaired its Finance Committee until the 2006 buyout by Lafarge SA.

Dana Wortley is married to Russell Wortley, former head of the Gas sub-branch of the SA Transport Workers Union and elected in 2006 to the South Australian Legislative Council.

In a 2006 interview, Walsh claimed that during his tenure with the Bengals, Brown " worked against my candidacy " to be a head coach anywhere in the league.

On November 26, 2006, the Chadian government claimed to have recaptured both towns, although rebels still claimed control of Biltine.

A 2006 reanalysis of the data questioned this hypothesis, as it claimed to have found a data collection bias, which led to an erroneous conclusion.

In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission claimed in a report on paramilitary activity that two groups, styling themselves as Saoirse na hÉireann and Óglaigh na hÉireann, had been formed after a split in the Continuity IRA.

It was proposed by the Beazley led Australian Labor Party opposition in a 2006 press release, with the intention of protecting children who were vulnerable due to claimed parental computer illiteracy.

Additionally, Benton claimed in the early 1990s that he would commit suicide at the age of 33 to " mirror " a lifespan opposite that of Jesus Christ ( however, he passed that age in 2000 and did not commit suicide, rebutting in 2006 that these statements had been " asinine remarks " and that " only cowards and losers " choose to kill themselves ).

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008.

In 2006, a book written by journalist Milorad Bošnjak and machine engineer Slobodan Jakovljević ( a direct descendant of Jakov Obrenović, half-brother of Miloš Obrenović ), it was claimed that Karađorđe's ancestor was an Albanian Catholic from Kelmend called Đin Maraš Klimenta.

Among several cellular networks, the Babilon Mobile Company, a US-Tajik joint venture, claimed to have 40 percent of the market in 2006.

On January 27, 2006, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute claimed to have produced fusion in sonoluminescence experiments .< ref >

In the 2006 elections, several parties claimed to be motivated by his ideas, including the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy ( PPRD ), the political party initiated by the incumbent President Joseph Kabila.

In 2006, the INLA claimed to have put at least two drugs gangs out of business in Northern Ireland.

The CCF claimed in a press release that "( a ) n official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006.

It is claimed that only a minority of evaluation reports are used by the evaluand ( client ) ( Datta, 2006 ).

They claimed his membership expired in 2006 and was not renewed.

In April 2006 The Sun claimed that Paxman earned £ 800, 000 for his Newsnight job and £ 240, 000 for presenting University Challenge, bringing his TV earnings to a yearly total of £ 1, 040, 000.

According to a documentary aired on the Swedish television channel SVT in February 2006, associates of Pettersson claimed that he had confessed to them his role in Olof Palme's murder, but with the explanation that it was a case of mistaken identity.

In Taiwan, Li Ao in his TV talk show in 2006 claimed that the Dalai Lama had commanded human sacrifices, asking his followers to " tear out human skin " for " some religious ceremony ".

In 2006 he admitted the film was not authentic but a staged " reconstruction " of footage he claimed to have viewed in 1992, which had deteriorated and become unusable by the time he made his film.

In June 2006 a statement regarding the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq was released hailing al-Zarqawi as a martyr and claimed that the resistance movements in Afghanistan and Iraq " will not be weakened ".

Iran claimed to have successfully tested its first supercavitation torpedo on 2 April and 3 April 2006.

Harrison County Coroner Gary T. Hargrove told the mayor and City Council that Hurricane Katrina had claimed 53 victims in Biloxi, as of January 30, 2006.

* Richard Kuklinski ( 1935 – 2006 ), mafia contract killer who claimed to have killed between 33 and 200 people.