The country’s next president was proclaimed last week via a joint session of the two houses of Congress. Despite some quarters’ efforts to make the May 2010 elections fail, or prevent the proclamation of the winners of the national elections, the people were able to express their choice and exercise their right to choose their leaders.

This time, and unlike their immediate predecessors, the incoming leaders are anointed with a clear mandate, a mandate that carries with it some serious responsibilities. Not the least of these is keeping in mind that the people are counting on them to keep the promises they made before and during the campaign period.

Again, one of those promises has to do with keeping all government dealings and decision making transparent, and accomplished under the light of public accountability. And we should settle for nothing less. After all, the government is spending our money. It is about time that we, the people, see how our money is being handled by those we have elected as leaders.

Acer Covers All Bases

Acer Philippines last week introduced various new models of its Acer, eMachines, and Gateway brands of desktop and laptop computers, projectors, and peripherals.

Leading the crop of new computers is the Intel Core i5-650M-powered Aspire M3910 desktop PC. Nestled on an Intel H57 Express chipset, the core chip is ably supported by the 3GB DDR3 memory. This makes the desktop computer highly capable of performing whatever computing tasks its user might throw its way, including multimedia-heavy jobs.

The batch also includes several Aspire notebook models powered by the latest Intel chips, as well as the Acer Aspire 1825PTZ multitouch tablet PC and the 0.61-kilogram Acer K11 LED ultra-lightweight projector.

It seems like Acer is all set to extend its reign as the number 1 vendor in the local computer market.

Toshiba’s 3D Notebook

Toshiba recently introduced the dynabook TX/98MBL, the computer industry’s first notebook PC capable of playing back 3D content in the Blu-ray format. To be launched first in the Japanese market, the notebook computer will be available by the end of July.

The Toshiba notebook features a 15.6-inch LDC monitor with LED backlight and a 120HZ scan rate. Its 3D playback system involves the WinDVD BD technology and NVIDIA 3D Vision software and hardware.

This corner can hardly wait to get its hands on this Toshiba notebook and experience firsthand its 3D-playback feature.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.