netflix down

SAN FRANCISCO - Netflix Inc. frustrated investors and customers alike Tuesday as its stock price plunged to its lowest point in more than two years while its Web site was inaccessible most of the day because of unexplained technical problems. [1]

PDT: We have posted a completely new story here that details how Netflix will be forced to delay deliveries. [2]

If you’ve been trying to log onto Netflix this afternoon and been having trouble, it wasn’t just you. [3]

Internet movie rental company Netflix suffered a site outage beginning at 7 a.m. [2]

The online hub of Netflix?s rental system went down Monday evening and remained unavailable until Tuesday afternoon, locking out subscribers for more than 18 hours. [1]

The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. [3]

As digital TV migration nears, confusion mounts as some cable customers see basic cable channels disappear from their analog packages. [2]

Netflix’s Web site said the service was temporarily down Tuesday afternoon. [3]

Spokesman Steve Swasey attributed the outage to an unanticipated problem that he declined to describe. [1]

Customer service personnel told CNET News.com that they were told the site was undergoing routine maintenance when something went wrong, information they then passed on to customers. [2]

Daniel Terdiman is a staff writer at CNET News covering games, Net culture, and everything in between. [3]

That is incorrect, according to Steve Swasey, the company’s director of corporate communications. [2]

In the other only other notable instance of technical outage occurred last July when the web site was unavailable for several hours due to unexplained technical problems. [...] Netflix has made its name and reputation on making sure that its DVD movies get into customers hands quickly. [4]

Hoping to retain more of its current customers while enticing new subscribers, Netflix is decreasing monthly fees by $1 on its two most popular plans to match Blockbuster?s prices for comparable Internet-only services. [1]

Sources:
[1] Netflix reeling from customer loss, site outage - U.S. business (www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19932882)
[2] Netflix down for at least five hours | News Blog - CNET News (news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9901944-7.html)
[3] Netflix down | Tech news blog - CNET News (news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9741971-7.html)
[4] Tech Failure Brings Netflix Down - Retail (www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Retail/Tech-Failure-Brings-Netflix-Down)

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