There is a bad news for all those who have recently purchased a RIM’s Blackberry PlayBook tablet. It has been confirmed by the Developer Relations VP Alec Saunders over the twitter that very soon, the side-load apps will be banned on this BlackBerry PlayBook. In coming times, RIM will not allow anybody to access this facility.

The Co-Chief Executives of Research in Motion (RIM), Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, might soon be stepping down from their post as Barbara Stymiest is being prepared by the company to substitute them. At present, Barbara Stymiest is an independent member of RIM’s board.

There are rising expectations that US consumers would be looking to have BlackBerrys and PlayBooks soon, as the Research in Motion has trimmed-down its price for the PlayBook. However, market analysts think otherwise, as there is near consensus that RIM would have tough time against rival devices from Apple Inc. and Google Inc.

RIM may suffer shrinkage in its vulnerable customer base as many have started looking for alternatives to BlackBerry after the recent outage that left millions of users without access to messaging and emailing services.

London-based venture capitalist Frederic Court, who has long been using BlackBerry for emailing, said that he was going to ditch BlackBerry in favor of the iPhone.

Canadian smartphone manufacturer RIM on Thursday claimed that it had fixed the BlackBerry outage harassed million of users across five continents for more than three days.

But, the BlackBerry has another exhausting task at hand- regaining the trust of its customers.

According to Research In Motion Ltd., Blackberry services have improved drastically in various nations, and the company has managed well to make place in US and Canada.