
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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Conservatives renew call for open source in government
News Government is missing out on £600 million of open source savings, according to a new Conservative report into IT procurement practices.
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Oracle appeals liability limits in TomorrowNow suit
News The latest twist in the ongoing battle of the enterprise application giants over TomorrowNow‘s “inappropriate downloads” sees Oracle disputing the court’s ruling to limit potential liabilities.
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Netbook surge marks turn in PC market
News Analyst ABI is predicting a confluence of market events will boost netbook sales over the next five years, marking a new era in the PC market.
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IP minister calls off file-sharing threats
News The Intellectual Property minister has poured cold water on proposals to make ISPs implement a policy that could ultimately lead to the disconnection of illegal file sharers.
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Ofcom to cut mobile termination rates
News The UK telecoms regulator plans to cut the cost to mobile operators for connecting to each other’s networks after a Competition Commission ruling.
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Morrisons outsources IT process change
News The UK supermarket has called on Wipro's IT and process delivery services off the back of rival-beating results, as part of its ongoing Oracle-based IT overhaul.
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ICO takes action against Home Office, NHS Trusts
News Data losses at the Home Office and two NHS Trusts, has led the Information Commissioner to take enforcement action, mandating remedial security measures.
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Figleaves.com to use IT to spur growth
News The underwear retailer is upgrading its IT infrastructure to rationalise costs and management overheads in support major business transformation plans.
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Government accused of lacking basic data policies
News A series of Freedom of Information requests to central government departments has revealed a failure to establish basic data protection and error correction policies.
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Apple beats gloom with record-breaking quarter
News Apple exceeds expectations in spite of the global economic slowdown, posting the best revenue and earnings growth in its 33 year history.
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Streaming media worries IT
News The demand for and expectations of video use in the UK and Ireland is growing, but new Cisco research reveals many anticipate IT challenges involved in meeting it.
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Job losses will lead to more e-crime recruitment
News E-crime recruitment, the browser as the new operating system and identity theft goes social are the three top web security trends, according to a new report.
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Marketers missing return on investment analytics
News An annual marketing survey has found that, while spending is predicted to keep rising, growth in online activity is at the expense of meaningful results analysis.
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M&S signs store IT support contract
News The retailer consolidates its in-store IT support provision by signing a new, seven-year with its incumbent supplier.
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Birmingham NHS in largest e-prescribing roll out
News The Heart of England Foundation Trust has started a major roll out to three acute sites of e-prescribing and drug administration software to improve patient safety.
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Data centres lack virtual management
News It may be the main technology trend in data centre consolidation, but organisations are still not updating their management capabilities to suit.
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Intel's profits plunge 90 per cent
News The chipmaker takes a battering in its fourth quarter, as the worsening global economy and investment losses start to add pressure to its bottom line.
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PC shipment growth at its lowest since 2002
News Preliminary market figures have found the PC industry suffered its worst quarterly growth rate in six years at the end of 2008.
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MPs slam MoD handling of IT project
News The Ministry of Defence project to overhaul its PC estate has been heavily criticised in a government report.
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Airwave goes live on London's Tube
News The world’s biggest public safety radio network has completed the TETRA roll out on the London Underground integrating emergency response capabilities.
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ASDA maps out UK mobile first
News The supermarket chain has become the first UK retailer to use the latest location-based advertising technology to help customers find their nearest store.
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Survey: SaaS on the development agenda
News Software-as-a-service is likely to feature high on the R&D agenda of most vendors and enterprises in 2009, as developers shun cloud computing.
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Subway in global POS software roll out
News POS standardisation is order of the day for sandwich chain Subway.
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British Museum eyes more modern IT
News A new, seven-year managed IT services contract will provide the British Museum with a foundation for modern applications in the future.
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