
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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BBC taps former Yahoo talent
News John Linwood, the former Former Yahoo social networking guru, is set to join the BBC in April, having left the internet search giant last month.
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Oxford University Press slashes order fulfilment costs
News Oxford University Press is using workforce management software to increase output, cut fulfilment costs and save £100,000 a year from its staffing budget.
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Cisco not buying RIM, hints chief exec
News The networking giant’s head has vetoed any large, consumer or device acquisitions, quashing rumours it was in the market to buy RIM.
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DWP confirms ID data breaches
News The system that holds data key to the ID cards programme has been breached by staff in over 30 local authorities, the government department has admitted.
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Brits go back to basics with mobile phones
News LG and Samsung are top of UK consumers’ hit list when it comes to problematic mobile handsets, prompting them to look for more stripped down models.
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Virgin Games rolls out new customer management tools
News Virgin Games has taken on new software to provide more accurate and targeted customer communications and increase marketing results.
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Notts Trent University to overhaul IT infrastructure
News The Midlands learning institution has signed a four-year strategic outsourcing deal to overhaul almost its entire IT and communications infrastructure.
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SAP looks to boost SMB focus
News SAP's new UK director Stephen Read tells IT PRO about his plans to grow the software giant’s midsized business with a multichannel, volume-led model.
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Taking green IT beyond the data centre
In-depth The ‘greening’ of IT began in the data centre, with a focus on server consolidation and cooling, but is now spreading to all levels of the IT infrastructure.
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Tribunal orders ID card reviews to be published
News The Information Tribunal has upheld the original Information Commissioner’s order that the ID cards’ Gateway Reviews should be published.
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‘Sexy view’ worm takes first step towards mobile botnets
News A security vendor has released details of a new SMS mobile worm that uses a breakthrough propagation strategy and is targeting mobiles running the Symbian operating system.
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UK firms suffering from next-gen comms complexity
News Most UK firms realise the need for high-performance telecommunications infrastructure, but struggle to implement and realise investment in its technologies.
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ICO again criticises government data sharing
News The data protection watchdog has strengthened its criticisms of the government’s plans to share data with private organisations to fight crime and terrorism.
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Accountancy firm upgrades to unified comms
News Accountancy firm haysmcintyre rolls out unified communications to boost disaster recovery plans and cut costs.
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Cloud computing boosts security plans
News A survey of information security professionals has found that the cloud and software as a service are leading organisations to boost their security.
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HP results rely on EDS, services
News The IT vendor just managed to scrape increases in revenue, posting first quarter results that relied heavily on its recent EDS acquisition.
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Analysis: Women in IT still hit glass ceiling
News Despite a positive outlook on their careers, the latest research has shown the glass ceiling for women in IT has not yet broken.
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Businesses continue to invest in online marketing
News Tools to extend marketing strategies top this year’s online agenda, according to a new Adobe survey.
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Toshiba buys Fujitsu HDD business
News Fujitsu will take a loss on the sale of parts of its storage division, while Toshiba looks to grow its market share to 20 per cent through the acquisition.
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Staffs Police cuts red tape with mobile training
News The Midlands force is making the most of its new mobile devices by providing training to cut 30 minutes of administrative time from each shift.
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Red Hat, Microsoft tie up interoperability deal
News The two software giants sign a patent-free interoperability deal to tie up the competition in the virtualisation space.
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Netbooks continue to sustain PC market
News The era of the mini-laptop or netbook is here, confirms IDC, as it predicts sustained growth that will support the PC market through 2009.
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UK IT firm helps navy take on Somalian pirates
News A UK-based IT security consultancy has supplied Wi-Fi meshing technology as part of new communications systems designed to help tackle Somalian piracy.
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Europe’s largest Arts uni halves support calls
News The University of the Arts London has developed an initial managed desktop investment to connect 21 sites and cut support calls by 50 per cent.
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