Ad: Manage updates with the Download App
  • CNET
  • All whispercast posts

whispercast

Amazon pushes Kindles for classrooms

Wednesday's CNET Update is syncing your reading assignment:

Amazon has launched a way for teachers to easily push out reading assignments through a Kindle. Today's tech news roundup looks at Whispercast, which allows organizations to manage books and documents synced to a group of Kindle accounts. Everyone the group doesn't need to own a Kindle, but they do need a device with a Kindle app. Classrooms can also order Kindles with custom profiles that block Web browsing or disable purchasing.

In other news, Best Buy is joining retailers like Barnes & Noble and Toys "R" … Read more

Amazon's Whispercast for Kindle targets schools, businesses

It may still be years before digital books replace paper ones in schools, but Amazon is laying the groundwork for the transition with Whispercast for Kindle, a free "scalable" online tool for "deploying Kindle devices and Kindle content." With Whispercast Amazon is also targeting businesses administrators who want to manage and share Kindle books and documents within their organizations.

The program has quietly been tested for the last several months with a number of organizations. Using the tool, schools and companies can either distribute Kindle hardware to students or employees or have them them "bring … Read more