
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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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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Developers to charge for Google Android apps
News Google adds detail to plans to woo more developers, meaning all applications will no longer be free, as has been the case since the launch of its mobile apps store.
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Lufthansa bolsters e-commerce model
News The Star Alliance airline has taken on a new e-commerce platform to grow its online shopping business and provide integration to its loyalty programme.
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Microsoft offers $250,000 Conficker bounty
News In an attempt to combat the worm that’s been plaguing the internet, the software giant is offering a $250,000 reward for information on the gang responsible.
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Web 2.0 doesn't boost productivity, security
News A new European study into the technology tools used to increase collaboration in the workplace has revealed they are found wanting in efficiency and security.
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Lord Carter begins universal broadband negotiations
News An ongoing row over sharing broadband spectrum has spurred the communications minister to call the mobile operators into negotiations.
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Microsoft patch tackles SQL bug
News Microsoft has plugged SQL Server holes that it admitted to knowing about in December as part of four security updates released in its monthly bulletin.
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Staples boosts IT change compliance
News Staples has bought Oracle software to automate change control management for meeting compliance requirements, like PCI and SOX.
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E.ON consolidates data centres with tracking
News The energy supplier has used application baselining technology to track performance as part of a major server consolidation it has just completed.
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Quick fixes top recession-hit storage agenda
News IDC’s annual survey has found IT managers are looking for quick-fix solutions to save on storage expenditure during the economic downturn.
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FCUK paves way for US anti-fraud tech rollout
News French Connection has completed the roll out of new fraud monitoring systems in the US, following an earlier, successful deployment to all of its UK stores.
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MySQL boss leaves Sun
News The database guru becomes the latest high-profile figure to leave the Sun in the last few months.
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Open source data integration on the rise
News Interest in open source technologies is increasing in response to exponential enterprise data integration growth, a new survey suggests.
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