Prime Minister Gordon Brown will unveil his ‘broadband for all’ scheme today, which will aim to provide broadband for disadvantaged families. The £300m scheme will be targeted at families with low incomes, whose children might fall behind at school if they cannot access online lessons...

The number of business start ups in the UK is on the rise, with 10% more businesses opening up in the last 3 months than in the same period last year. Figures recently released by Selectabase revealed 22,824 new businesses had started up between June and August 2008, an increase of 11.4% on the same period last year...

An expert has claimed that a fibre-optic network would need to service the entire country in order to create an infrastructure that would meet the needs of the future. Edd Dawson, managing director of broadband.co.uk, explained that people living in rural areas would miss out on top speeds if deployment only occurred at cabinet level...

According to new research, one in 10 small businesses have experienced a rise in cost by over 25% in the past year. Continued inflation is said to be putting a severe strain on profitability. Research from credit rating firm Creditsafe, found that 10% of businesses have experienced a 25% increase in costs over the last year...

The government has been criticised by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) for being “seriously blinkered” in regard to the state of rural broadband. A recent report by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), which recommended that the Government leave funding of next-generation access to ISP’s has come under fire from the CLA.