Cloud computing platforms have become very important in recent years for a wide variety of purposes, from serving websites through to scientific analysis, and the BBC has been an enthusiastic adopter ...

Recently, Google has stepped up its presence in the cloud computing arena. Google's new App Engine (aka "AppSpot") lets you design and run web applications using Google's existing infrastructure.

Python is a powerful programming language that is easy to learn and easy to work with, but it is not always the fastest to run—especially when you’re dealing with math or statistics. Third-party ...