When FileMaker relegated Bento to the dustbin, users of the occasionally maligned but rather excellent and exceedingly simple personal database for the Mac and iOS were left wondering what’s next for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...