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Bloop (Bloop: http://bloop.it/) has released Fresh Feed and Fresh Feed Pro 1.5.2, updates to its lightweight news notifiers for Mac OS X. The new versions add Google Reader support, a quick preview, Speech and more.

With the apps, you can select some of your RSS or Atom feeds, and each time new information arrives, Fresh Feed will inform you with an alert sound. You can read the title and the source of the news. If you want to read more, it’s possible to delve into the subject matter by viewing a preview from a pop-up menu.

Apple and Apple are under pressure from Senator Charles Schumer to remove smartphone apps that alert users to the locations of nearby police DUI checkpoints, according to “PC World” (http://macte.ch/qoP6d).

These apps typically use your device’s GPS capabilities to alert you to nearby speed traps, red light traffic cameras, and DUI checkpoints from a database of user-generated locations. Schumer asked Apple and Google to consider whether these apps violate the companies’ respective terms of service by facilitating illegal activity, notes “PC World.”

U.S. lawmakers considering new privacy laws “scolded” Apple and Google Tuesday for not doing enough to guard mobile device users’ location data, despite executives’ assertions that they don’t abuse the information, reports “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/m9bOS).

“I have serious doubts about whether those rights are being respected in law or in practice,” Democratic Senator Al Franken said at a hearing of a new subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.