{"id":8223,"date":"2009-09-30T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/back_from_canada.html"},"modified":"2009-09-30T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:55:38","slug":"back-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/back-from-canada.html","title":{"rendered":"Back from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my tour of The Great White North and am back in the US where I feel much more comfortable using my electronics. With my data usage I always get the feeling I will see multi-thousand dollar wireless bills for a few days of use. In less than ten hours I went over the AT&amp;T Mobility data usage limit my MIS team had set at 20 Mb. Suffice it to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trapster.com\/\">Trapster<\/a> is a bandwidth hog&#8230; Not to mention tons of email with attachments.<\/p>\n<p>The EVDO in my laptop worked great in Canada &#8212; it was every bit as good as the US. Likewise Rogers 3G was as fast as AT&amp;T. I know many people complain about AT&amp;T service and it is&#160; still inferior to Verizon but getting better by the day.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I am in a six-hour marathon drive from Rochester to Mass. It is a gray day and the leaves haven&#8217;t turned yet so it is not such a great trip from a visual perspective.<\/p>\n<p>At least I&#8217;m getting lots of work done. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The trends are the same as they have been for a while. Hosted is hot, hardware is not selling as well as it used to and video has lots of potential. Obviously this info is not lost on Cisco who <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/cisco\/cisco-to-acquire-tandberg-for-3b.html\">picked up<\/a> Tandberg today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my tour of The Great White North and am back in the US where I feel much more comfortable using my electronics. With my data usage I always get the feeling I will see multi-thousand dollar wireless bills for a few days of use. In less than ten hours I went over the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,170,171,172,1,160,196,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}