
Miya Knights
A 25-year veteran enterprise technology expert, Miya Knights applies her deep understanding of technology gained through her journalism career to both her role as a consultant and as director at Retail Technology Magazine, which she helped shape over the past 17 years. Miya was educated at Oxford University, earning a master’s degree in English, and has enjoyed a hugely varied career in leading roles such as a global technology research director at Planet Retail and a senior research analyst at IDC.
She has also co-authored two books on business technology: ‘Amazon: How the World's Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce’ and ‘Omnichannel Retail: How to Build Winning Stores in the Digital World’, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award in the Sales & Marketing category.
Her role as a journalist has seen her write for many of the leading technology publishers in the UK such as ITPro, TechWeekEurope, CIO UK, Computer Weekly, and also a number of national newspapers including The Times, Independent, and Financial Times.
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Google+ extends beta to business
News Submission deadline looms for businesses looking to get involved with social network’s testing phase.
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Vendors must help with confusion over cloud computing
In-depth IT pros are apparently confused by the cloud, and the different ways IT services providers view it isn't helping.
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Server market recovery will be slow, says analyst
News 'Green shoots' may be on horizon, but revenue decline still into double digits.
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Can unifying comms help in a recession?
In-depth The industry is gearing up for a major push into unified communications, but what’s driving such confidence that there will be sufficient demand?
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Oracle sales down, but gaining ground in Europe
News The IT giant has reported a drop in software sales, while beating analysts’ forecasts and still growing in Europe.
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UK leads on green IT, innovation, investment
News A new independent study has found that UK IT professionals are stealing a march on their US and German counterparts.
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Government CIO moots ‘G Cloud’ app store plans
News Following the introduction of plans to create a government cloud, John Suffolk has been commenting on the possibility of establishing a public sector app store.
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Manchester Council rapped for data breach
News The Information Commissioner has rapped the authority after the loss of laptops containing the details of 1,754 school-based staff.
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Reviews reveal cracks in NHS IT project
News The long-awaited publication of 31 of the government’s Gateway Reviews on the £12.7-billion NHS project exposes calls for remedial action.
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Linux mainframe adoption set to grow
News A new independent survey has found availability, capacity and cost advantages are driving greater adoption of Linux on mainframes.
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Diageo signs outsourcing deals worth $35 million
News CSC deals will provide ongoing IT infrastructure support to the drinks giant and develop a new supply chain management system.
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IBM innovates in the cloud and over mobile apps
News Two announcements from Big Blue target business services in the cloud and location-aware sporting applications.
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New Android phone touted for Q3
News Huawei claims it’s working on the next Android smartphone to hit Europe, but operator T-Mobile is remaining tight-lipped on the plans.
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Leicestershire Constabulary puts bobbies back on beat
News A desktop virtualisation project in line with government targets to mobilise the police force, allows more officers to patrol the streets.
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Council broadens horizons with virtualisation project
News Both office and mobile workers within Surrey County Council are to benefit from a new Citrix desktop strategy.
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Citrix bets on consumerisation of IT
News The internet, netbook and smartphone are making the user experience a key strategic driver in delivering modern IT infrastructures according to Citrix.
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Comet unveils web 2.0 Q&A tool
News The online electrical retailer has implemented new social networking features to build on the success of the introduction of reviews to its website.
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BPM emerges as key downturn tech
In-depth The recession has handed technologies like BPM and SOA the perfect opportunity to prove their worth.
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IT to play key role in retail upturn
News New research suggests IT will grow in strategic importance for retailers as they prepare for future development despite the current recession.
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E-commerce sales growth slowing
News The latest e-retail sales figures for 2009 show a continued year-on-year increase, but growth has slowed and monthly sales fell by two per cent.
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SOA ROI proving elusive, claims Gartner
News Despite maturity, a global survey has found the time taken to achieve a return on investment is still proving a barrier to the adoption and success of SOA.
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Virgin Media secures more with less
News Communications giant Virgin Media has slashed its UK corporate network security costs by 30 per cent by moving to a single supplier.
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Banking attracts older mobile web users
News New research has found age and gender affect the mobile web destinations and device choices of European users.
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iPhone continues to hold smartphone crown
News Apple comes out top of lucrative smartphone market, while LG gets the nod from traditional mobile phone users.
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