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BlackBerry Cuts 250 Workers, Calls It Efficiency

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hit-the-road-jack dept.

First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto writes "Want to become more efficient? Try lopping off 250 workers. That's what BlackBerry did this week — saying it was a move to become more efficient. From the article: '“This is part of the next stage of our turnaround plan to increase efficiencies and scale our company correctly for new opportunities in mobile computing. We will be as transparent as possible as those plans evolve,” says Lisette Kwong, a company spokeswoman.'"

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  1. Re:250?! by Octorian · · Score: 4, Informative

    i can't kill -9 a process. so i need to reboot the phone whenever i put an infinite loop in.

    That's because the QNX command for this is slay, which does work and basically does the same thing.