Teleflip

Teleflip was a free service providing email to/from SMS text-message conversion (both directions):
* Flipout, a free email-to-SMS/text service. To use this service, the user sent an email to @teleflip.com. For example, [e-mail]; (310)[e-mail]; and [e-mail] were valid email addresses. Teleflip (Flipout) was strongly anti-spam and Teleflip implemented spam filters to block spammers.
* FlipMail, was Teleflip's free SMS-to-email, enabling cellphones to receive e-mail via SMS rather than a Carrier-provided SMS-to-Email.FlipMail supported only cell phone carriers in North America, including cell phone carriers in the USA. The Teleflip service was free, but cellphone carriers frequently collected fees for SMS messages delivered to the recipient.

Teleflip was founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, California and the Teleflip services debuted in 2005. The service was featured in many publications such as the New York Times, PC Magazine, Seattle Times, and Popular Science.

On August 12, 2008 Chief Executive Tony Davis e-mailed subscribers that the company, which at one time had as many as 25 employees, was shutting down its services and would explore selling its technology. [cite news |last=Proctor |first=Charles |title= Outdated Cell Phone Service to Close |url= http://www.labusinessjournal.com/article.asp?aID=65399714.2780163.1673516.4146506.1399406.995&aID2=128723 |date=2008-08-25 |work=Los Angeles Business Journal |accessdate=2008-09-13]

As of September 6, 2008 the [http://www.Teleflip.com/ official Teleflip website] was non-functional and SMS message delivery failed.

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