Measures being taken to prevent future problems.

McAfee has apologised to its users about the faulty update file released on Wednesday which caused crashes in Windows XP SP3 systems across the globe.

Barry McPherson, McAfee's executive vice president of support and customer service, said in a blog post late last night that his team had been battling round the clock to fix the problem and to work with affected customers.

Opens up possibilities.

iPhone users looking for a fully functioning operating system now have the option of loading Google's open source Android operating system on their shiny Apple smartphone.

A talented coder who previously worked on jail-breaking various iPhone OS releases also demonstrated, a year ago, the Linux kernel running on an iPhone.

This time he goes one better, not only showing that the iPhone can indeed dual-boot, but can do so between the iPhone and Android OS.

By using the previously released Openiboot loader, the user, upon firing up the device can choose which operating system to load.