“All my information was gone,” the Shreveport native said.

He took it back to the store and asked to have his information transferred to a new phone, but they couldn’t do it.

“It was such a headache. I lost my e-mails, photos and 250 contacts.”

The ordeal got Winbush so worked up that he had a dream about a way to put that information onto a Web site remotely, with no wires or cables. That was five months ago.

Now, Winbush’s dream is just weeks from coming true, and he plans to share it with his hometown first.

Winbush, who now lives in New York City, has started a company called CyberSynchs. It offers a service that saves cell phone information like contacts, pictures and e-mails on a secure Web site, so people can access the information if something happens to their cell phone.

CyberSynchs will be available in a BETA version to Shreveport residents beginning Nov. 10. The service, which will be compatible with IPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices, will be free for the first month and $3.99 a month thereafter.

All people have to do is sign up for the service through www.cybersynchs.com, and a text message will be sent to their phone. When people click on the text message, all their information is sent to the site for secure storage.

The service will be available to the rest of the U.S. mobile market by December for a monthly startup and maintenance fee of $2.99 per month ($38.88).

Sounds like a pretty good service to me. You never know when you’ll need something like this until it happens to you. $2.99 a month for a service like this really isn’t that bad if you carry vital information on your BlackBerry. Of course you might be skeptical about the privacy of your synced information. I guess we’ll see how well this service does.

Read the whole article at ShrevePortTimes.com.