Among them: Pets.com (with its crooning sock puppet), Outpost.com (flying gerbils) and Furniture.com (a smug, talking cat named George).
Moreover, though some criticise the Commonwealth for being little more than a talking shop, it is a talking shop that poor countries (Zimbabwe apart) seem to like.
Key titles include the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, noted for its in-depth analysis and robust cross-examination of senior politicians (available within a week of the UK broadcast), as well as HARDTalk, Click (a popular technology magazine show covering news and developments in consumer technology), Fast Track and Talking Movies (a guide to the best in film, from the most recent Hollywood blockbusters to ground-breaking world cinema).
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There was software that could take a picture of a cat and make it look like it is talking (Reallusion Animation Suite), accounting applications (Kashoo) and a field guide to North America birds (iBird).
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"Honda, off the back of a bad season, suddenly when they realise they are up for sale start talking that this (their 2009 car) is a winning design and it's a great opportunity for anyone to buy this winning design, " Coulthard said.
"We are talking a long time ago (but) I've boxed the best in the world, " the Londoner told BBC Radio Merseyside.
The Masters traditionally takes rules to extremes: at Augusta you may be escorted to the gate if caught with a cellphone (that's with a phone, not talking on one).
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When Hannah meets up with a smooth-talking sex addiction counselor (a sly, polished performance by Maurice McRae) the farce level is ramped up considerably.
On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee, a down-home, smooth-talking Arkansan is paired with a suave (though British-born) Cary Grant.
And while most of us are just talking to a handful of friends (or ourselves), a handful of influential people top the list of those we want to hear from in our online world.
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That would set it apart from most of the video news on the web, which typically involves a talking head speaking words that would work just as well (or poorly) as a text article or the script of a radio segment.
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But for a few years the director (who I profiled in 2009) has been talking about doing a smaller, more intimate movie with fewer explosions and more acting.
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The new Woody Allen film stars Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff, an irate New Yorker who once had a beautiful wife and a serious reputation as a physicist. (Or so he tells us, talking straight to the camera.) Now he has a lousy apartment, no job unless you count chess tutoring and nobody to share his life except for a few cronies.
The genre is technically known as a Tactical Role Playing Game, meaning that one of the primary game activities is to collect different types of soldiers (in our case, a crew of odd-ball talking animals and mythological creatures) and field them in tactical battles (ship raids and prison breaks).
Negotiators have been talking to the man through a 4in-wide (10cm) ventilation pipe.
And so I decided to spend a few weeks talking (and eating and drinking) in Daniel Boulud restaurants in New York.
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But, in that moment, it was if I, a student, was just talking to another (important) adult.
Specwise, we're talking a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM inside, 4GB of storage (expandable via a microSD slot) and a 2, 150mAh battery.
Faced with this challenge, Mr Sarkozy has tried to respond with messages about checking immigration, regaining control of the country's borders (talking about a possible opt out from Europe's Schengen agreement) and dawn raids on suspected Islamic militants.
Perhaps the most important aspect of the campaign she's mounted with her group Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT) consists of talking to the communities that make up a variegated and neglected social landscape with a literacy rate barely above 10%.
"For some time, I've been talking with (Turner Chairman and CEO) Phil Kent about wanting to make a change, and he supports my decision, " Walton wrote in a memo to employees.
The movie, directed by Chris Weitz, is stuffed with subplots and characters (talking animals, witches, and water gypsies) who all have a story to tell, and the narrative gets so busy that the plot gets lost.
Similarly, if just two Republicans can threaten to kill a budget bill by talking it to death (as happened last month), then there is nothing Mr Hastert can do about that either, except to pull the bill from the floor of the House.
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They set an ambitious plan: launching an Internet company a month (or week, depending on whom they were talking to).
We're talking about an actual (well, artificial) cloud that promises to be both a real structure and a massive digital display.
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Because, you know, I was interviewing author Susan Strait(ph) a couple of weeks ago, and we were talking about how we do our work.
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" Stop Making Sense " (Palm ): Pure delight from David Byrne and Talking Heads, and a reminder that the audio on DVD can be as stunning as the visuals.
For the profoundly risk averse and cautious (diffident is another word that applies) Japanese, we are talking a requirement for change that most societies endure and achieve only as a consequence of catastrophic circumstances, like war.
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