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Date Published
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Danielle Morrill
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278
Language
English
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Summary

At the University of Michigan Department of Computer Science and Engineering, three Ph.D. students successfully built a Twilio application that lets users listen to and interact with Yahoo! email messages in under 24 hours. The `y!vMail` project allows users to call anyone with a phone number stored in their Yahoo! contact list, summarize long messages by keywords, and navigate through emails like voicemails. This complex web-telephony integration idea was implemented into a working prototype, solving an important business problem, and its potential as a business venture remains to be seen.