Another essential for getting a strong reference: Help her prepare not only to rave about you, but also to offer specific examples of your brilliant accomplishments.

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Still, it would be naive to try to understand the spread of a 500m-strong religion without reference to sociology.

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Tizen has one particularly strong backer, Samsung, who built the reference device we play with in the video after the break, and whereas Firefox OS is destined only for the low-end, Tizen seems far more ambitious -- at least judging from the 720p resolution of this developer handset.

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The company will only say that there was a spike in demand from a particular company in Sweden, an obvious reference to Ericsson, which as it happens also posted strong results on Wednesday.

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