Amazon Introduces Mobile Card Reader To Compete With Square, Paypal | Pcworld

31 a promotional rate of 1.75 percent per card swipe on all major credit and debit cards through Dec. 31, 2015. After that, they will pay 2.5 percent per swipe. Customers who sign up after the promotional http://www.androidsentral.com period pay a flat rate of 2.5 percent on all swiped transactions. Square collects a fee of 2.75 percent per swipe, while PayPal Here charges 2.7 percent per swipe transaction in the U.S. and Intuits GoPayment starts at 1.75 percent per transaction. Customers can create accounts on Amazon Local Register , purchasing the $10 card reader and downloading a free mobile app from either the Amazon Appstore, Apple App Store, or Google Play.
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Android 4.4 KitKat grows again

With Live App Testing, developers can create a version of their app that’s only distributed to select testers via email. The email includes instructions on how to download the app and begin testing it. The apps can be tested on any Android-based device, including Kindle Fire tablets and the Fire smartphone, which started shipping at the end of July. Live App Testing is available via the company’s developer console. To get started, developers can click on the tool’s tab, add metadata about the app and the APK (application package file) they want to test. Users that will be able to test the app are added via the console.
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Amazon hopes to simplify mobile app testing with new tool – Computerworld

The 4.4 version is now comfortably the second most used Android number and has risen by 3% from the 17.9% of the market it took in July. That is a healthy jump and even though Android L is due to land in the fall we expect KitKat’s rise to continue into next year. Of course, Android 4.4 was released to unify the market more, something the L release will strive to do on a grander scale with Android One. Android usage data KitKat’s success has been as a standalone version because while it has taken a large chunk of the market share, Android still remains terribly fragmented, with nearly 25% of the market still using versions that are over three years old and over 50% using the pre-KitKat version Jelly Bean. Indeed, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and its various patch numbers accounts for 54.2% of the market, highlighting how popular that release was.
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