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Nemanja Vidic will join Inter Milan at the end of the season, Italians confirm Vidic 'is a world-class player' says Inter president Erick Thohir Serbia centre back 'is another part of the great side we are building' Vidic's three-year deal thought to be worth around £20m Inter Milan have announced the capture of Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic for next season. Sportsmail revealed how Inter had been first to react to the veteran Manchester United defender’s decision to quit Old Trafford at the end of the season. The Italian club confirmed on Wednesday that they had got their man, with president Erick Thohir immediately hailing the signing as 'crucial' for the team. Vidic is a great champion,' he said on inter.it. 'I am extremely satisfied with the completion of this agreement that will bring Nemanja to Milan. 'He is one of the strongest defenders in the world, for his characteristics, his international experience...

iOS in the Car" is here and it's known, more simply as "CarPlay" – but what can you expect from Apple's new car-focused initiative? Apple’s CarPlay service will allow divers to connect their iPhones right into their car, enabling them to get Apple Maps directions, make calls, send and receive texts, and listen to music all by using their car’s built-in controls, be it voice, in-dash touchscreen, or knobs and other physical controls. Integrating iPhone With The Car CarPlay represents Apple’s realization that the car must become one of the future hubs that the iPhone can seamlessly connect with. In the past there have been some (somewhat flaky) ways to connect your iPhone to your car’s infotainment system, but those have been hit or miss. With Apple’s CarPlay system, Apple is firmly behind the steering wheel and we can expect CarPlay’s features to be expanded each year. Apple originally announced its intention to integrate iPhone and the car with its “iO...

The new national taekwondo coach, Jin Beom Kim began his first assignment as nine athletes are at present in camp for the Youth Olympics Qualifiers cum World Junior Champions holding this month in Taipei, Chinese Taipei. In a letter singed by the President, World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), Chungwon Choue, the 10th WTF Junior Championship and Youth Olympics Qualifiers would help the athletes to display their skills to the full. “I expect that the 10th WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships and the WTF Qualification Tournament for 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games will serve as an opportunity for the youth to display their skills to the full and also to exchange friendship among the youth from all parts of the globe,” the WTF boss said. However, the nine athletes at the Abuja camp are all gold medalists at the maiden National Youth Games organized by the National Sports Commission (NSC) and they are expected to represent Nigeria at the two events on March 20 to 26. The athletes ma...

Japan is taking steps to regulate bitcoin, and will introduce legislation to that effect soon, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review. But it won't be a currency, like yen or dollars — instead, bitcoins will be treated as a tradeable commodity like gold or oil. How Japan plans to enforce these regulations, no one knows for sure. After the largest bitcoin exchange, Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, collapsed with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars unaccounted for, a Japanese lawmaker asked the government to make its position on the virtual currency clear. The cabinet is set to announce regulations soon; the Nikkei Asian review reports these will likely take the form of making revenue earned from bitcoin transactions and sales fall under the country's 8 percent "consumption tax," similar to the sales tax in the U.S. But given the largely anonymous nature of bitcoin commerce, how is the country to know whether a transaction is taxable — or even in Japan? T...

Facebook is reportedly in talks to acquire solar drone manufacturer Titan Aerospace for $60 million as part of its effort to connect more of the world to the internet as part of the Internet.org initiative. Titan Aerospace makes solar powered drones that can work as atmospheric satellites to provide wireless internet access in parts of the world without communications infrastructure. The Solara 50 and 60 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Titan can be launched at night on battery power, and then they will rise up to a height of 20km, where they can remain for up to five years. Titan say that their drones can also be useful for weather monitoring and disaster recovery due to their lower cost and better versatility when compared with traditional space satellites, but it is their use as communication network access points that will have interested Facebook. TechCrunch cited anonymous sources familiar with the deal who put the purchase price at $60 million.

Los Angeles became the latest city to restrict e-cig arettes after the city council unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban the devices everywhere that conventional cigarettes are prohibited. Citing their concern over the unknown health effects of e-cigarettes, council members banned them in offices, most public parks and even locales that don't admit anyone under 21. Just about the only place left for e-cigarette users, other than their own homes, will be e-cigarette lounges where patrons go to taste different flavors. Testimony at the Los Angeles hearing was heated, just as it was in cities such as New York and Chicago when legislators proposed similar restrictions there. People in favor of 'vaping,' as e-cigarette use is known, say it is a useful alternative to regular cigarettes because there is no cancer-causing tobacco. Instead, e-cigarettes heat up cartridges of flavored nicotine juice and users inhale the resulting vapor. There may be no tobacco, but opponents...

Hopes for South America's soybean production took another dent with downgrades from Informa and from Oil World, which elsewhere in the oilseeds complex cautioned over South East Asia palm oil output too. Informa, citing both a lower estimate for soybeans and weaker yield hopes, downgrades its forecast for Argentina's forthcoming soybean crop by 3m tonnes to 54m tonnes. That figure, representing an increase of nearly 5m tonnes year on year, is in line with the forecast from the US Department of Agriculture, if above an estimate last week of 53m tonnes from the Buenos Aires grains exchange. Informa also cut its forecast for the Brazilian soybean crop, by 900,000 tonne to 88.8m tonnes. 'Further deteriorated' That figure is below the 90.0m tonnes forecast by the USDA, whose data set global benchmarks, but and in line with an estimate from Brazilian industry association Abiove last week, although some other observers have far lower numbers, citing the weathers ext...