Apple yesterday announced its iPhone smartphone-video iPod combo device will launch in the UK on November 9th.

The largest mobile phone operator in the UK, Telefonicas O2, has been awarded an exclusive deal to sell the device, which will be priced at 269 pounds ($536). Apple recently slashed the price of iPhones in the US by one-third, from $500 to $399. Steve Jobs told local UK reporters that the price difference was the result of different taxes and higher trading costs in the UK.

In the UK, the iPhone will be sode through Carphone Warehouse shops, as well as O2 and Apple retail outlets.

The deal with O2, which has almost 18 million subscribers in the UK, is similar to the one Apple struck with AT&T in the US, in that users must subscribe to O2 in order to use the device. AT&T is the largest mobile phone carrier in the US with a nationwide network. However, O2s wireless coverage will handle just 30% of the UK by the iPhone launch date, so the mobile operator is giving iPhone users free access to about 7,500 WiFi hotspots run by The Cloud.

This week, Apple is also expected to announce deals with Deutsche Telekoms T-Mobile in Germany and Orange in France.

At QBS PC Help we have collected a large number of links to Key Windows Support Bulletins. These are listed by operating system i.e. Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME and 98.

To see the full list check out our windows technical support page.

Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.

These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce and other Registry keys. You can also configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with both Windows ME and XP.

Autoruns works on all versions of Windows including 64-bit versions.

Download a copy of this useful program from the Microsoft Technet site.

(Also included in the Autoruns download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.)

See our guide to using Autoruns.

If you have installed a PC network in your home using either network cabling or wireless technology, or a combination of both, you can easily share one or more printers across that network.

To get all the desktop and laptop computers on your network to use a specific printer you first have to set up “Windows File and Printer Sharing” on whatever Windows Operating system you are using.

You can even install two or more printers on one PC as long as the PC has sufficient ports (printer ports and/or USB ports). For example, one printer could use the standard printer port and the other could use one of the free USB connections. Both of these printers could then be shared across your home network.

Our latest help guide shows you how to do all this, step by step.

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The number of women resigning from IT jobs has risen over the last year and the pay gap between the sexes widened for the first time in 11 years.

Research from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and pay researcher Remuneration Economics shows 5.7 percent of women working in IT resigned from their roles in 2006, a rise of 2.1 percent on the previous year.

In terms of pay, women saw an average pay rise of 2.9 percent compared to a 3.1 percent increase for men, the first time in 11 years that men’s earnings have risen more than women’s.

But the research found female managers enjoy faster promotion than men, with a 37-year-old woman working as a team leader typically five years younger than her male counterpart.

Source: ZDNet