Apple software subsidiary FileMaker, Inc. unveiled a preview today of a new database product named Bento. If you've been waiting for Apple to offer an easy to use database as part of iWork, this is it ...

Mac OS X includes several programs that could be described as databases. And they’re easy to use, as long as your data happens to be contact information (Address Book), audio and video files (iTunes) ...

Databases have been available since the dawn of personal computers, but they have always suffered from a simple issue: just about everyone needs one, but few people know how to build one. Mac users ...

The latest version of Bento, the consumer database app for Mac from FileMaker that also works for small businesses, addresses some of the programs earlier shortcomings such as its inability to print ...

Thinking back to the dawn of corporate personal computing in the early 1980s, its single most important aspect was that it broke the monopoly that corporate IT had on information and the manipulation ...

Apple subsidiary FileMaker is dropping Bento, the consumer-friendly database app for OS X and iOS, in order to focus on its core products. The Mac app was first released in 2008 to generally positive ...

FileMaker has announced that it’s discontinuing Bento, its consumer-level database for the Mac and iOS. The app will be available for purchase until September 30. First introduced back in 2008, Bento ...

Long ago and far away — about 1982 or 1983 — there was a database called Nutshell that used the simple metaphor of index cards to let you store and use information. I remember Nutshell fondly even if ...

Less than a year after the January debut of the personal database app Bento, FileMaker has delivered Bento 2, spiffed up with enhancements current users should welcome. I wrote a blog post about Bento ...

FileMaker is offering its full-featured Bento 4 personal database tool for only $5 through the end of July. That's a great deal on an awesome (mostly) iPad app, according to CIO.com blogger James A.

Bento, the personal database for iPhone, iPad and Mac, isn't long for this world. But have no fear; CIO.com blogger James A. Martin found three quality alternative databases for iOS. FileMaker Inc. is ...