Shares of Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry phones, fell Tuesday to their lowest levels since 2006 after a J.P. Morgan analyst cut his earnings forecasts due to the global economic crunch.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=Xg88O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=Xg88O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=5Hl6o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=5Hl6o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=W76Ho"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=W76Ho" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/472848864" height="1" width="1"/

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