* Dr. David Acer, Florida dentist, infects 6 patients with HIV, unclear if this was a deliberate act: 1987 – 1990

In 2010, Toshiba was the world's fifth-largest personal computer vendor measured by revenues ( after Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer and Lenovo ).

Dell's price advantage was tied to its ultra-lean manufacturing for desktop PCs, however this became less important as the market shifted to laptops, and as rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer made their PC operations more efficient.

* David J. Acer, Florida Dentist who was believed to have intentionally infected patients with the AIDS virus.

Traditionally, Cabrales was sold wrapped in the moist leaves of Acer pseudoplatanus ( Sycamore Maple ), but nowadays regulations require that commercially produced Cabrales be sold in a dark-green-coloured aluminum foil with the registered official stamp of the PDO Queso de Cabrales.

An Acer x freemanii was planted in her honour adjacent to the School House garden.

Mean number of breeding eastern towhees ( 0. 70 bird / 50-m radius ) and nest success rate ( 58 %) were higher in a 15-year-old clearcut in West Virginia, than in other treatments, including a stand of yellow-poplar ( Liriodendron tulipifera ), black cherry, red maple, sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), and white ash ( Fraxinus americana ) that was not harvested.

It was laid out with 2, 500 trees and shrubs, all labelled and arranged in an unusual alphabetical format from A for Acer ( maple trees ) to Z for Zanthoxylum ( American toothache trees ).

While the Am386 was primarily used by small computer manufacturers, the Am486DX, DX2, and SX2 chips gained acceptance among larger computer manufacturers, especially Acer and Compaq, in the 1994 time frame.

The company was renamed Acer in 1987.

In 1993, Acer posted record profits of $ 75 million ; 43 percent of that year's net was generated by the DRAM joint venture, considered " the most efficient in the DRAM industry " by some observers.

The Gateway Handbook remains one of the smallest laptops ever produced and was a precursor to Netbooks such as the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Inspiron Mini Series, and the Acer Aspire One.

Acer negundo is often discussed as comprising three subspecies, each of which was originally described as a separate species.

Acer negundo was identified in 1959 as the material used in the oldest extant flutes from the Americas that were made of wood.

Gateway was acquired by a Taiwanese personal computer manufacturer Acer in October 2007, and eMachines is still used as a name brand for low-cost PCs.

Gateway itself was purchased by Acer in October 2007.

In August 2007, Gateway was acquired by Acer Inc. for $ 1. 90 per share or $ 710 million.

Gateway was acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007.

In October 2008, in was announced that Acer would phase out Quanta from the production chain, and instead outsource manufacturing of 15 million Aspire One netbooks to Compal Electronics.

The Micro-Professor MPF-I, introduced in 1981 by Multitech ( which, in 1987, changed its name to Acer ), was the first branded computer product from Multitech and probably one of the world's longest selling computers.

All systems were developed in-house except for the later E series which was developed by Acer.

While the term has fallen mostly into commercial disuse, the term clone for PCs still applies to a PC made to entry-level or above standard ( at the time it was made ) which bears no commercial branding ( e. g., Acer, IBM, HP, Dell ).

The university Law Forensic Guild debating team was declared the Winner and Champion, taking home Acer laptops and the CD-ROM Lex Libris Law Library Series.

Lee has also had an impressive career in modelling, ranging from high profile adult magazines such as Playboy ( in which she was the first Asian model to feature on the cover ) to advertisements for Acer Computers, Chrysler, Brut, Miller Beer, Mountain Dew, Maxwell House and Sunkist Juice.

Soil chemistry can be dramatically changed when base cations, such as calcium and magnesium, are leached by acid rain thereby affecting sensitive species, such as sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ).

Sony, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, Fujitsu and Acer laptops were also affected by the defective batteries.

Pocket PCs are manufactured and sold by several different companies ; the major manufacturers include HP ( under the iPAQ and now defunct Jornada brands ), Toshiba, Acer, Asus, Dell ( under the now defunct Axim brand ), Fujitsu Siemens, E-TEN, HTC, and ViewSonic.

XScale microprocessors can be found in products such as the popular RIM BlackBerry handheld, the Dell Axim family of Pocket PCs, most of the Zire, Treo and Tungsten Handheld lines by Palm, later versions of the Sharp Zaurus, the Motorola A780, the Acer n50, the Compaq iPaq 3900 series and many other PDAs.

The western American bigtooth maple ( Acer grandidentatum ) is also treated as a variety or subspecies of sugar maple by some botanists.

Recent additions by the Action Group include paperbark maple ( Acer griseum ) ( 2004 ), cedar of Lebanon ( Cedrus libani ) ( 2005 ), further yew and pine trees ( 2006 – 2009 ) and a Ginkgo biloba ( 2011 ) for the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The largely temperate genera formerly separated in the families Aceraceae ( Acer, Dipteronia ) and Hippocastanaceae ( Aesculus, Billia, Handeliodendron ) were included within a more broadly circumscribed Sapindaceae by the APG.

In 1994, Shih unveiled a plan to " deconstruct " Acer into 21 publicly traded business units by the end of the 20th century.

Acer Inc. would continue to own anywhere from 19 percent to 40 percent of the firms ' stock, but Shih hoped that their independent status would enable the individual units to compete more effectively by facilitating entrepreneurship, inspiring research and development, and allowing for corporate fundraising through stock and bond offerings.

In 1996, Acer expanded into consumer electronics, introducing many new, inexpensive videodisc players, video telephones, and other devices to boost global market share, and in 1997 extended its laptop efforts by buying Texas Instruments ' mobile PC division.

Considering two consecutive quarters of net losses in Q2 + Q3 2011 and realization they are selling too many products ; 101 individual notebook, netbook and chromebook SKUs in the United States alone, Acer will cut product lines by two thirds beginning in 2012.

It will be replaced by Acer Business

A six-person Board of Directors ran Gateway prior to the acquisition by Acer.

On October 16, 2007 the acquisition by Acer became final and Gateway became a privately held company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Acer.

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In 1989, Shih hired Leonard Liu away from a 20-year career with IBM, making him president of the Acer group and chairman and chief executive officer of Acer America Corp. Liu's managerial style reflected his experience at " Big Blue ": in contrast with Shih's traditionally progressive corporate culture, Liu tried to centralize control of Acer.

Three species of maple trees are predominantly used to produce maple syrup: the sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), the black maple ( A. nigrum ), and the red maple ( A. rubrum ), because of the high sugar content ( roughly two to five percent ) in the sap of these species.

A few other ( but not all ) species of maple ( Acer ) are also sometimes used as sources of sap for producing maple syrup, including the box elder or Manitoba maple ( Acer negundo ), the silver maple ( A. sacharinum ), and the bigleaf maple ( A. macrophyllum ).

menziesii ), Pacific madrone ( Arbutus menziesii ), Red alder ( Alnus rubra ) and Bigleaf maple ( Acer macrophyllum ) forest.

Common overstory associates include Bigleaf Maple ( Acer macrophyllum ), California Bay Laurel ( Umbellularia californica ), Gray Pine ( Pinus sabineana ), and White Alder ( Alnus rhombifolia ).

Shrub associates in the central and northern part of Coast Douglas-fir's range include Vine Maple ( Acer circinatum ), Salal ( Gaultheria shallon ), Pacific Rhododendron ( Rhododendron macrophyllum ), Oregon-grape ( Mahonia aquifolium ), Red huckleberry ( Vaccinium parvifolium ), and Salmonberry ( Rubus spectabilis ).

Associated species in this type include red maple ( Acer rubrum ), American elm ( Ulmus americana ), black tupelo ( Nyssa sylvatica ), swamp white oak ( Quercus bicolor ), willow oak ( Q. phellos ), overcup oak ( Q. lyrata ), bur oak ( Q. macrocarpa ), green ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica ), Nuttall oak ( Quercus nuttallii ), swamp chestnut oak ( Q. michauxii ), and shellbark ( Carya laciniosa ) and shagbark ( C. ovata ) hickories.