
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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UK drops out of global spam dirty dozen
News The UK does not figure in latest quarterly spam report for the first time in two years, while the US continues to lead.
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Can security concerns kill cloud computing?
In-depth The IT industry has identified cloud computing as a major trend for the future. But how much of a barrier to its development and adoption will security be?
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Focus on... Storage
In-depth What do IT decision makers need to consider when it comes to choosing the right type of storage for business?
By Jennifer Scott Published
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Wickes uses online reviews to increase brand loyalty
News DIY retailer Wickes has implemented ratings and reviews on its website to build brand trust and help customers better understand its products.
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21st century mainframes
In-depth Despite the ubiquity of the client/server computing model and the current hype around cloud, the mainframe is the focus of much modernisation work.
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Critical HP OpenView flaws discovered
News Users of one the most widely deployed enterprise remote network management technologies are being warned of security flaws that could compromise systems.
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Brits vote ‘yes’ to e-government services
News A new Ofcom survey has found in the use public sector information or services offered online are growing in popularity, but are not helped by the digital divide.
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Card-not-present fraud up 13 per cent
News Official 2008 card fraud figures show chip and PIN continuing to drive fraudsters online or to those cards not yet reliant on PIN protection to authorise payments.
By Miya Knights Published
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NetSuite launches application store
News The software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor has launched a new developer network aimed at building specialist, vertical applications on its platform, in the cloud.
By Miya Knights Published
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Brits ignore mobile security basics
News Research has found too many of us are leaving not only ourselves, but our employers, open to data theft, due to a lack of mobile phone data security.
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Tough times to drive mobile coupons use up 30 per cent
News Juniper Research has predicted major growth in the use of mobile coupons over the next two years.
By Miya Knights Published
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UK price cuts for iPhone and T-Mobile's G1 Google phone?
News Following the announcement of a cut in T-Mobile’s Android G1 handset US pricing, rumours fly that the same will happen in the UK and that O2 will follow suit with price cuts for the iPhone too.
By Miya Knights Published
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Collaboration, web conferencing tops for SaaS
News Forrester has published a new software-as-as-service market report, predicting where the delivery model will gain or lack traction over the next decade.
By Miya Knights Published
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Tesco virtualisation cuts carbon and costs
News The supermarket giant updates mission-critical sales systems with new blade-based virtualisation platform for increased efficiency and performance.
By Miya Knights Published
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$40 billion wiped off banks' IT spending
News The decline in growth throughout the global technology market will remove over $40 billion of what would have been IT spending from the banking sector over next five years.
By Miya Knights Published
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Microsoft patches address kernel, DNS flaws
News Microsoft has issued three patches as part of its monthly security update schedule, but has not fixed a recently discovered flaw in Excel.
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Identity and access controls key in recession
News Companies should look to access management to prevent internal fraud in a recession, Garter has said.
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Comic Relief goes for green systems
News Operations for the charity’s ‘Do Something Funny for Money’ campaign will rely on more cost and carbon effective in-house server and storage systems, as physical servers are cut to a fifth.
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Government scraps data sharing plans
News Jack Straw has bowed to pressure from civil liberty groups and public sector bodies, including the Information Commissioner, to scrap controversial clause 152 in the Justice Bill.
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JANET signs £4.5m West Midlands e-learning deal
News The UK academic and research network has upgraded a regional infrastructure to deliver enhanced electronic learning facilities to 3.4 million staff and students.
By Miya Knights Published
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France Telecom profits shrink 35 per cent
News The parent of mobile operator Orange has reported full-year financial results where slight turnover and profit increases were swallowed up by tax hikes.
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Health professionals call for Justice Bill exemption
News Professionals from eight healthcare organisations have joined the call for medical records to be left out of proposed legislation to increase government data-sharing powers.
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Downturn takes hold in mobile markets
News The economic downturn is hurting mobile phone sales, according to new research.
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IT staff overworked and underpaid
News New research by the TUC has found IT professionals are doing six hours unpaid overtime a week, highlighting the need for its “Work Your Proper Hours” campaign.
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