Sanrio and various corporate partners have released Hello Kitty-branded products, including the Hello Kitty Stratocaster electric guitar ( since 2006, with Fender in the US ) and even an Airbus A330-200 commercial passenger jet airliner, dubbed the Hello Kitty Jet ( 2005 – 2009, with EVA Airways in Taiwan ).

In 2006, Sanrio announced they are again going to do feature-length films.

Badtz-Maru, a fellow character of Hello Kitty from Japanese company Sanrio, was the official 2006 mascot.

This is part of the creative futures plan, launched in 2006, to bring all BBC News output under the single brand name.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

In 2006 CND launched a campaign against nuclear power.

London Docklands also now boasts its own free newspaper, The Docklands, launched in 2006 by Archant London, following the purchase of Docklands News, the ex LDDC newspaper which was then owned by Ivy Communications.

* 2006 – American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.

COROT ( launched December 2006 ) and Kepler ( launched March 2009 ) are the two currently active space missions dedicated to searching for extrasolar planets.

Following Adam Ramanauskas ' personal battle with cancer, a ' Clash for Cancer ' match against Melbourne was launched in 2006.

Ohloh, a web service founded in 2004 and launched in 2006, monitors the development activity in the free software community, providing detailed metrics and quantitative analyses on the growth and popularity of projects and programming languages.

ADSL services were launched in Stanley in mid 2006.

In January 2006, ERT launched Digital Terrestrial Television with 3 channels.

Banks launched Mullan's book in Dublin, Derry and at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke in the Summer of 2006 and has described Mullan as ' my greatest fan '.

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

After the campaign appeared in the Metro newspaper London the business news website www. mad. co. uk remarked that the IKEA campaign had amazing similarities with the marketing activity of UK home refurbishment company Onis living who had launched their own Not For Sale advertising campaign two years prior and was awarded the Interbuild 2006 Construction Marketing Award for best campaign under £ 25, 000.

* 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

* 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.

In October 2006 the SuperJanet5 project was launched after £ 29 million of investment.

On January 19, 2006, the first spacecraft mission to explore the Kuiper belt, New Horizons, was launched.

In 2006, President Hockfield launched the MIT Energy Research Council to investigate the interdisciplinary challenges posed by increasing global energy consumption.

In 2006, Fraser launched a " scathing attack " on the Howard Liberal government, attacking their policies on areas such as refugees, terrorism and civil liberties, and that " if Australia continues to follow United States policies, it runs the risk of being embroiled in the conflict in Iraq for decades, and a fear of Islam in the Australian community will take years to eradicate ".

The second generation MX-5 ( NB ) was launched in 1998 and the current ( NC ) model has been in production since 2006.

A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.

Aside from appearing in numerous radio and television commercials in the St. Louis area since retiring from baseball, Smith authored a children's book in 2006 and launched his own brand of salad dressing in 2008.

In May 2006, Rostelecom launched a new fiber-optic data transmission line linking Russia's Far Eastern cities of Belogorsk and Blagoveshchensk with the Chinese city of Heihe on the Chinese-Russian border.

By March 2006, at least 65 % of the Greek population was able to view Digital TV for free with the use of set-top boxes.

In July 2006, Wired News, which had been part of Lycos since the purchase of Wired Digital in 1998, was sold to Condé Nast Publications and re-merged with Wired Magazine.

As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes.

An online version of the latest edition can be accessed through the paid Westlaw legal information service and as of late 2006, West Academic has published Black's Law Dictionary Digital, 8th edition ( ISBN 9780314176103 ) which has toolbars that integrate with Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

In October 2006, Gabriel was given the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, an award presented in recognition of his " profound and lasting influence on the development of digital music.

The band's website, PPunk. com went live later in 2006 and by the end of the year the album was on iTunes, Napster and more than 7000 digital retailers world wide through Universal Digital and IODA ( US ).

* Digital Television 1990s, widespread public application 2000s ( Digital television transition 2006 -)

* Gelbstein, E. ( 2006 ) Crossing the Executive Digital Divide.

* Gray Davis Digital Library ( active web site, launched 2006 )

However, 2006 saw the April release of a 2-disc live DVD Iona: Live in London, featuring a 5. 1 Dolby Digital Surround mix by LA's John Kellogg, and a November release of a new studio CD entitled The Circling Hour.

" A 2006 study attacked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

In 2006 was awarded the BT Digital Music Award for Best Music Magazine and the first ' Chairman's Award ' from the Association of Online Publishers awarded by the Chairman, Simon Waldman in recognition of its pioneering role in its ten-year history.

* Gelbstein, E. ( 2006 ) Crossing the Executive Digital Divide.

Digital television and cable providers, along with Sirius XM satellite radio, IBOC, DAB and digital radio broadcasters have been required to participate in the EAS since December 31, 2006.

NTL launched TV Drive, its high-definition television ( HDTV ) and Digital Video Recorder ( PVR ) service in Glasgow and Teesside on 16 November 2006.

* 2006: Huella Digital Bronco el Gigante de America

‘ E-Government ' ( or Digital Government ) is defined as ‘ The employment of the Internet and the world-wide-web for delivering government information and services to the citizens .’ ( United Nations, 2006 ; AOEMA, 2005 ).

The Institute of Creative Technologies ( IOCT ), which opened at De Montfort University in 2006, undertakes interdisciplinary research in emerging areas at the intersection of Science, the Digital Arts and the Humanities.

Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel was released in North America on June 13, 2006, Japan on September 21 and the PAL region on September 22.

In 2006, Western Digital introduced its My Book line of mass market external hard drives that feature a compact book-like design.

While Western Digital maintained that they used " the indisputably correct industry standard for measuring and describing storage capacity ", and that they " cannot be expected to reform the software industry ", they agreed to settle in March 2006, with a $ 30 refund to affected customers in the form of backup and recovery software of the same value.

* Digital Imaging ( under construction as of 2006 )

In Iceland, since Nov 2006 Vodafone Iceland runs Digital Ísland ( Digital Iceland )-the broadcasting system for 365 ( media corporation ), ( previously operated by 365 Broadcast Media ).