In a 1999 " merger of equals " BC Tel merged with Telus ( the telephone operating company in Alberta ).

It has also hosted a number of concerts, trade shows, wrestling shows and tournaments such as the 1999 Scott Tournament of Hearts, 2003 Royal Bank Cup and 2006 Telus Cup.

When Telus Communications acquired Clearnet Communications in 1999, this included a Integrated Digital Enhanced Network ( iDEN ) branded as Mike by Clearnet.

Telus merged with BCTel in 1999 to form the present-day Telus Corporation.

Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.

A standard for MIDI over USB was developed in 1999 as a joint effort between IBM, Microsoft, Altec Lansing, Roland Corporation, and Philips.

When Exxon Corporation merged with Mobil Corporation in 1999, the newly merged company ended enrollment in Mobil Corporation's domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners of employees, and it rescinded formal prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation by removing it from the company's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

* Chapman Book of Piloting ( various contributors ), Hearst Corporation, 1999

In 1999 Dr. Francesco Pompei of the Exergen Corporation introduced the world's first temporal artery thermometer, a non-invasive temperature sensor which scans the forehead in about 2 seconds and provides a medically accurate body temperature.

On 28 January 1999, Volvo Group sold its business area Volvo Car Corporation to the Ford Motor Company for US $ 6. 45 billion, with the resulting group largely set on commercial vehicles.

Valmet merged with Rauma company in 1999, and the current Metso Corporation was created.

He resigned from Netscape Communications Corporation on April 1, 1999.

The network has been operated under contract since privatisation of the Public Transport Corporation in 1999, the current private operator is KDR, trading as Yarra Trams.

The company's corporate name was changed from Southland Corporation to 7-Eleven, Inc. in 1999.

* Chapman Book of Piloting ( various contributors ), Hearst Corporation, 1999

During the Internet boom in 1999, the company acquired Cerent Corporation, a start-up company located in Petaluma, California, for about US $ 7 billion.

The arrival of the Capstone Microturbine has led to several hybrid bus designs, starting with HEV-1 by AVS of Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1999, and closely followed by Ebus and ISE Research in California, and DesignLine Corporation in New Zealand ( and later the United States ).

On October 5, 1999 Sprint Corporation and MCI WorldCom announced a $ 129 billion merger agreement between the two companies.

Groups created include Toshiba Music Industries / Toshiba EMI ( 1960 ), Toshiba International Corporation ( 1970s ) Toshiba Electrical Equipment ( 1974 ), Toshiba Chemical ( 1974 ), Toshiba Lighting and Technology ( 1989 ), Toshiba America Information Systems ( 1989 ) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation ( 1999 ).

In 1999, the company acquired Frontier Corporation, the former Rochester Telephone Corporation, and renamed it Global Crossing North America, Inc.

* Chapman Book of Piloting ( various contributors ), Hearst Corporation, 1999.

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation was a 1999 lawsuit which established an important precedent in regard to reverse engineering.

Thinking Machines continued as a pure data mining company until it was acquired in 1999 by Oracle Corporation.

* On December 24, 1998, USC entered into a transition agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, transferring the IANA function to ICANN, effective January 1, 1999, thus making IANA an operating unit of ICANN.

A 1999 national survey named him as Canada's greatest hero, and he finished second to Tommy Douglas in the 2004 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program The Greatest Canadian.

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:

The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U. S., in June 1999.

The Act overturns a 1999 U. S. Supreme Court case that held that an employee was not disabled if the impairment could be corrected by mitigating measures ; it specifically provides that such impairment must be determined without considering such ameliorative measures.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

* The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins ( pK ), or 0. 000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal.

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

The Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

The DB7 range was boosted by the addition of V12 Vantage models in 1999, and in 2001 the company introduced the V12-engined Aston Martin Vanquish.

Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module.

He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1999.

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

In February 1999, Saron was made a Grade II Listed Building.

He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows NT server.

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.