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TeleFlip Going Belly Up?

by Ronen Halevy on Aug 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am EST
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I don’t know how many people use TeleFlip but I know I use it every once in awhile. It was a very simple service. You sent an email to phonenumber@teleflip.com and it would automatically convert the email to an SMS message and sent it to the phone number specified. It even let non-smartphone users get their email as SMS messages.

According to GigaOM they sent the following message to all their users today:

We’ve gone as far as we can with our financial resources, and the piggy bank is empty. Effective Friday, August 15, 2008, at 9:00AM Pacific Daylight Time, Flipmail will no longer be operating for either public or private use, and will be turned off at that time. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you, however our other popular email to text service, Flipout, will remain functioning.

According to Saunderslog the regular email to SMS feature should still be functioning but the signs do not look good for the company. Its a telling sign that their SSL certificate has already expired as of the 8th of August. Saunderslog also reported that most employees were fired due to budgetary cuts.

It is sad to see such a lauded company fail but it makes me wonder what happened. Maybe they could not make money on a free service…

via GigaOM via Saunderslog

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2 Comments to “TeleFlip Going Belly Up?”

  1. Posted by: JerryD
    August 26, 2008 at 8:22 am EST

    Well I was not happy with this posting, but haven’t been able to check it out.

    I just went to their web site, and although they do appear to be in transition, their @teleflip.com service still works. To quote their site:

    “Please note that our computer to cell phone text message system continues to work.”

    YEA!!!

  2. Posted by: Jack Fuller
    August 30, 2008 at 4:06 pm EST

    30_aug. Tried to use teleflip to send a test message from Gmail, but it was never received.