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.
Latest articles by Miya Knights
Microsoft warns on IE9 and Windows Server flaws
By Miya Knights published
News Software giant’s Patch Tuesday security update prioritises remote code execution flaws.
Researchers question Android push notifications design
By Miya Knights published
News Newly discovered 'design flaw' could enable rogue app developers to create fake logins and steal passwords.
Anonymous and LulzSec dump US police data
By Miya Knights published
News Ongoing hacking government hacking campaign targets Law enforcement agencies in 11 states.
Google spearheads Bletchley Park fundraising
By Miya Knights published
News Web giant uses Street View to spotlight Enigma code-breaking heritage and restoration campaign.
Home Office backs forensic fingerprint technology
By Miya Knights published
News £80,000 research grant will fund development of techniques to identify details of suspects’ actions.
Microsoft releases Mango to manufacturing
By Miya Knights published
News Mobile OS development takes next step, but analyst urges firm to “get a move on.”
SAP reports positive second quarter
By Miya Knights published
News Software firm upbeat about software revenue growth and prospects for wider product portfolio
Mozilla talks up multi-process work
By Miya Knights published
News Firefox development team lays out efforts to improve speed, stability and performance.
Cisco continues jobs cull
By Miya Knights published
News Networking giant announces plans to cut a further 15 percent of its workforce in the Americas.
Councils fall short on IT data management
By Miya Knights published
News Many are compromising security with lack of ability to track and report on user activity in real time.
Microsoft $250,000 reward targets Rustock gang
By Miya Knights published
News The software giant appeals for information that might lead to conviction of spam botnet creators
Sony Ericsson reports bright outlook despite Q2 loss
By Miya Knights published
News Handset maker says Japan quake affects profits but is upbeat on US launch and second half prospects.
Mozilla tackles single sign-on with BrowserID
By Miya Knights published
News Launch of new project aims to make multiple logins and passwords a thing of the past.
Public sector IT gets cookie law service
By Miya Knights published
News Socitm offers website owners help to comply with new EU web tracking directive.
Google+ extends beta to business
By Miya Knights published
News Submission deadline looms for businesses looking to get involved with social network’s testing phase.
Vendors must help with confusion over cloud computing
By Miya Knights published
In-depth IT pros are apparently confused by the cloud, and the different ways IT services providers view it isn't helping.
Server market recovery will be slow, says analyst
By Miya Knights published
News 'Green shoots' may be on horizon, but revenue decline still into double digits.
Can unifying comms help in a recession?
By Miya Knights published
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?
Oracle sales down, but gaining ground in Europe
By Miya Knights published
News The IT giant has reported a drop in software sales, while beating analysts’ forecasts and still growing in Europe.
UK leads on green IT, innovation, investment
By Miya Knights published
News A new independent study has found that UK IT professionals are stealing a march on their US and German counterparts.
Government CIO moots ‘G Cloud’ app store plans
By Miya Knights published
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.
Manchester Council rapped for data breach
By Miya Knights published
News The Information Commissioner has rapped the authority after the loss of laptops containing the details of 1,754 school-based staff.
Reviews reveal cracks in NHS IT project
By Miya Knights published
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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