In a Guardian Interview published today Mark Shuttleworth mentions that “Netbook Remix” — an ultraportable optimized Ubuntu release — will be announced in the first week of June.

Wind River systems claims that it’s “Infotainment” system will be ready for you car by August. The system touts a ridiculous number of features, from a ridiculous number of companies.

The Short List:

• Text to speech and voice recognition from Nuance
• Noise reduction from Parrot
• Music management from Gracenote
• Networking from SMCS
• DVD video from Corel

The question remains: will controlling such a system via voice recognition lead to extreme cases of road rage?

The Story on EE Times

Despite the news yesterday that they were “well on the way” to developing Linux phones, Nokia announced today that it has no plans to do so.

The Register is reporting that the earlier report was a mistake caused by confusion about what constitutes a mobile phone.