Because the main client used to access the service became known as Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft started referring to the entire service as the Windows Live Messenger Service in its support documentation in the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, hip-hop became a more mainstream genre, and many young people started to question what real hip-hop was while new and unconventional groups such as Side Brok emerged.

During the mid-2000s, the addition of hours on sister stations became popular.

Around the mid-2000s, a renaissance of younger audiences became interested in 1980s metal, and the rise of newer bands embracing older fashion ideals led to a more 1980s-esque style of dress.

The Nine Network, the traditional ratings leader, suffered ratings losses by the mid-2000s, losing out to the Seven Network, which became the most popular Australian network early 2007.

By the mid-2000s it became apparent that the NDHQ complex at the MGen George R. Pearkes Building was overcrowded, forcing DND to spread headquarters staff out across the National Capital Region.

After considerable time and effort in the early and mid-2000s, Sony's FED efforts started winding down in 2009 as LCD became the dominant technology.

The " real oldies " format mostly faded in popularity in the mid-2000s ( decade ) as less expensive formats, including satellite-fed progressive talk radio, became more attractive to station operators who began reducing their investments into AM radio stations.

In the mid-2000s, The Diffusion of Innovations became the second-most-cited book in the social sciences.

Though the term became prominent during the economic downturn known as the Special Period in Cuba, usage has continued into the mid-2000s.

While the Canada-wide council became inactive with the world crisis in the socialist and Communist movement around 1992, by the mid-2000s an effort was made to re-establish Peace Councils in Edmonton and the BC Lower Mainland, in addition to Regina.

Hollywood's chute formerly allowed one mile ( 1, 609 m ) races, but when its finish line was moved forward in the late 1980s one mile ( 1, 609 m ) races could no longer be accommodated, and became the longest distance that could be run out of its chute ( an unintended consequence of this was that by the mid-2000s 7½-furlong m dirt races had gained considerable popularity in the United States when such races had rarely if ever been run before at most tracks, even those where the track's configuration made it possible to do so ).

After considerable time and effort in the early and mid-2000s, SED efforts started winding down in 2009 as LCD became the dominant technology.

An example is Fort Lauderdale, which became a popular tourist destination for gays and lesbians in the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, the Pinkenba railway station area became a rubbish recycling site, with large amounts of dirt dumped over the terminus siding that housed Pinkenba station.

By the mid-2000s ( decade ), the station dropped the " Lite Rock " identity from its on-air imaging and became known as simply 93. 9 FM, Today's Best Music.

Elias also became the rugby league pundit for now defunct SBS Television 7pm weeknight sports program in the mid-2000s.

The mumblecore film genre, which began in the mid-2000s, and uses video cameras and relies heavily on improvisation and non-professional actors, has been described as influenced in part by what one critic called " the spring-break psychodrama of MTV's The Real World ".

In the mid-2000s, Taylor County was noted in national news media as being one of the last areas in the South to hold racially segregated proms.

During the mid-2000s, Fallston was the location of an Exxon-Mobil station that was forced to close as a result of a heavily reported MTBE leak, and was one of several filling stations in the county being suspected of such leaks.

Gate E3 was closed in the 1990s to accommodate a connector between Concourses D and E. In the mid-2000s ( decade ), the Low E and High E security checkpoints were expanded and merged into one, linking both portions of the concourse without requiring passengers to reclear security.

More recently, the mid-2000s Guinness Brewmasters advertising campaign features the " little black book " as an invention of one of the brewmasters.

As of the mid-2000s, one of the few Scopitones not in a museum or private collection in the US was at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee.

India recorded the highest growth rates in the mid-2000s, and is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

Plans mooted in the mid-2000s to close Beltring station, or at least replace the existing services with a token service ( such as one train a week in each direction ) have been withdrawn.

The Independent Working Class Association performed strongly in the mid-2000s, holding three of the four council seats on Oxford City Council between 2006 and 2008, and still retaining one.

Annalist consider Medvedchuk one of the most important Ukrainian politicians from the mid-1990s till the mid-2000s ; although he mainly operated outside the public view.

British singer Jacko Buddin augmented the group on vocals during most of their European tours, with Lytle taking over on vocals for US / Canadian tours beginning in 2000 and full-time in Europe in the mid-2000s.

Softcore erotica programming typically does not air within the block and adult films have been absent from the main Showtime channel since the mid-2000s ( though a limited amount of original erotica series have resurfaced on the main channel in 2010 such as Beach Heat: Miami, after having been absent for most of the previous decade ), although the network's multiplex channels Showtime 2 and Showcase do occasionally feature adult films on their overnight schedules.

In the mid-2000s, most fansubs were distributed through IRC channels, file hosting services and BitTorrent.

A new genre of locally produced television rose in the mid-2000s as local television stations ( especially those affiliated with the NBC and Fox networks, where NBC gave up the most programming time ; Fox has no daytime programming per se ) saw network time on weekday mornings after 9am returned to local control and saw new national talk shows either fail or not attract the right demographic to a timeslot.

By the mid-2000s, most authorities accepted just two species — the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific.

There are 17 black players in the NHL as of the mid-2000s, the most prominent being Canadian Jarome Iginla ( who is currently on the Calgary Flames ).

However, with the near-universal use of LED ribbon boards, scoreboards and sideline boardings since the mid-2000s in most major league sites where only known sponsors have advertising displayed, " neutralizing " an arena has become a much easier process than in the past.

After mid-2000s programs of modernization of schools ( basic and secondary ) and the construction of new elementary schools called " educational centres " ( mostly to reduce the number of overloaded elementary schools, to widespread the 9 AM to 5h30 PM schedule system, because in most overloaded schools there are classes with 8 AM-1 PM schedule and other with 1 PM-6 PM ) are being held.

Electron beam lithography was most popular during the 1970s, but was replaced in popularity by X-ray lithography during the 1980s and early 1990s, and then by EUV lithography from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

The departure of the Captain would be the start of many defections by high profile personalities, including " Storm " Kennedy, Keith Michaels, Lisa Knight, and Ron Pritchard, who programmed the station for most of the late 90's through the mid-2000s.

Due to these advantages, by the mid-2000s, DVDs were the dominant form of prerecorded video movies in both the rental film and new movie markets.

Popularity of the term among teenagers rose in the mid-2000s, with the spread from the Internet written form to use in spoken language.

In the mid-1990s it converted to CDMA ( IS-95 and later EV-DO ) and in the mid-2000s converted to UMTS.

In the mid-2000s, railways remained a major mode of freight transportation, but with increasing problems with the maintenance of the infrastructure and lowering speeds, highways carried a progressively larger share of freight.

In the mid-2000s ( decade ) Juan Francisco Casas generated Internet attention for a series of large-scale, photo-realistic ballpoint duplications of his own snapshots of friends, utilizing only blue pens.

Love was also romantically linked to British comedian Steve Coogan in the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, the television version showed up again on Monsters HD, and in 2007, it made its home video debut as the US version on the Classic Media DVD.

Development of the parallel, XML-based language XHTML occupied the W3C's HTML Working Group through the early and mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, a case where a 14-year-old student was prohibited of entering a school in Fortaleza ever again, according to him and his family because of his fauxhawk haircut, sparked nationwide polemics in Brazil.

IPv6 was standardized as RFC 2460 in 1998, and its deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s.

It had staged an enormously successful resurgence by the mid-2000s with the RAZR ; but, lost significant market share in the second half of that decade.

After the construction of the AT & T Building ( commonly known to locals as the " Batman Building ") in 1994, the downtown area saw little construction until the mid-2000s.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

However, in other parts of the world that used the PAL or SECAM analog standards, standard-definition television is now usually shown with a 16: 9 aspect ratio, with the transition occurring between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s.

In 2001, many cell phones did not yet have texting or photography capabilities that came by the mid-2000s.

In the mid-2000s, a mutual defense treaty substantially enhanced relations between Russia and Uzbekistan.

Since the mid-2000s, Cuba has been a noted provider of medical aid.

Tube tops were extremely popular in the mid-2000s.

Despite these concerns, DVDs for reality shows have sold briskly ; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, and America's Next Top Model have all ranked in the top DVDs sold on Amazon. com, and in the mid-2000s, DVDs of The Simple Life outranked scripted shows like The O. C.

Then in the mid-2000s, Christie Van Hees and Rhonda Rajsich were the dominant players, but Paola Longoria finished # 1 at the end of the 2008 – 2009 and 2009 – 2010 seasons.

The spoked wheel did not appear in Mesopotamia until the mid-2000s BC.

Some analysts believe this cleavage played out politically since the time of the Vietnam War to the mid-2000s, to some extent defining the political landscape and division in the country.

Sales of SUVs and other light trucks fell in the mid-2000s because of high oil prices and declining economy.

Throughout the mid-2000s, Cisco also built a significant presence in India, establishing its Globalization Centre East in Bangalore for $ 1 billion, and planning that 20 % of Cisco's leaders would be based there.