Syner-G SMS Services

Funny thing happened a couple months ago when we met with the management of one of the leading wireless carriers here on Guam, we got around to comparing numbers. Apparently we do more SMS traffic to/from the Philippines on one day than they do in one month. We could literally see their jaws drop at the numbers we were giving them.

Given that we met with a leading wireless carrier(maybe the biggest) and there are only around 5 carriers here, the numbers of the other carriers would not be that far off. If we multiplied the monthly average for the carrier by 5, the multiple would still not equal our daily average. Very cool.

Now admittedly, SMS is not a big money maker for the carriers. They sort of just leverage SMS to get the voice traffic, so while our traffic is high, they are still the one making the money.

We love the fact that we are disrupting the communications industry on Guam with our tiny (3 person) operation. Not bad for a service that was built from scratch by us. I can only imagine what we can do if we had the money/budget of the big communications companies.

Be sure keep a watch out though, we are still building enhancements and new services all the time. Maybe we can disrupt another industry...

MicroHoo No More

If you haven't heard, Microsoft withdrew it's proposal to buy Yahoo. Too bad, it would have been interesting to see what Microsoft would try to do with it. IMHO it would have been an EPIC FAIL but fun to watch just the same.

Supposedly Yahoo was going to be the vehicle Microsoft would use to try to catch up to Google in Search, and they missed the bus. What is Microsoft to do now? The thing for them to remember, is Search is still in it's infancy and is essentially confined to the PC.

Personal life stream search accessible on any device will be the future.