By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist As I’ve been reading about technology in education, one of the most interesting trends that keeps popping up is gaming. As a casual gamer myself, I’ve heard the arguments about how gaming improves hand-eye coordination and problem solving and all the rest. (In fact I tried many of them with my mom when I was 12 years old) But the arguments for gaming in education today are far more advanced and compelling t…

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Tags: classroom, education, gaming, internet, learning, research, technology

Online gaming is big business. In fact, according to Strategy Analytics, the mass multiplayer online (MMO) game industry is estimated to be a US $8 billion dollar industry by 2014. To be successful in this market, game developers must push the envelope, creating extraordinarily detailed game worlds and more realistic game play. Sluggish rendering and slow response times are the enemy. The network acts as the beachhead in ensuring a stellar game…

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Tags: cisco network, en masse entertainment, MMO, MMORPG, MTM Technologies, online gaming, TERA

Welcome to the world of “gamification” There is a lot that business can learn from the gaming industry and the floodgates are about to open. Make sure you watch this amazing trend! Being an avid gamer myself, I’m very excited about how gaming is moving from play into work.  This fall, Cisco took our worldwide sales conference from an event where we used to fly 20,000 people into Vegas to hosting it online.  This virtual environment was a great…

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Tags: games, innovation, virtual events

As a self-avowed bit of a gamer (yes I have my Level 70 World of Warcrack character, and can go all the way back to Ultima Online, MUDs, Zork, Bard’s Tale, and Wizardry (anyone remember Werdna?) to establish a lineage…) I was reading a question today about ‘What is the Best Router for Gaming’???This is a very good question, but there are two sides to it! Sure, from home I would advocate something like a Linksys WRT54G or…

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More than 1,100 gaming establishments worldwide come to Global Cash Access  (GCA) for ideas and innovation. GCA is a global leader in providing tightly integrated solutions to the gaming industry by optimizing cash access processes. These services allow gamblers to access cash through ATM withdrawals, credit card and debit card transactions, check verification, and money transfers. When 60%-70% of the money on a casino floor comes from these dev…

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Tags: casino, casinos, Cisco, data center architecture, gaming, global cash access, network infrastructure. ip-based infrastructure, nexus IS