Sales of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch Top 100,000

Santa Clara, Calif. (Vocus) December 9, 2009

FileMaker, Inc. today announced that it has sold more than 100,000 copies of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch, making it among the most popular productivity apps sold on the Apple App Store.

Designed as both a standalone database and companion app to Bento for the Mac desktop version, Bento for iPhone, priced at $ 4.99 U.S., is a beautifully designed app that helps anyone get more organized and get more done.

An Apple Staff Pick and favorite among many iPhone app blog sites (see quotes below), Bento for iPhone syncs wirelessly with the Mac version of Bento, so you can access all of your latest databases on the go, right in the palm of your hand.

"Whether they want to take client information with them on the road, track trip expenses, create To Do lists, manage membership lists, get in shape or plan events, people are enthusiastically embracing Bento for iPhone and iPod touch to organize their busy lives," said Ryan Rosenberg, vice president, marketing and services, FileMaker, Inc. "We released Bento for iPhone just last May, and it is already among the most popular productivity apps on the Apple App Store.

Top features of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch

With 25 ready-to-use templates and the ability to create new, customized templates right on the iPhone, Bento for iPhone and iPod touch makes organizing contacts, projects, events and more fast and easy.

Bento for iPhone and iPod touch can handle the broadest range of tasks and projects. Its easy to store text, numbers, dates, times, durations, pictures, sounds, video clips, pop-up choices, check boxes, prices, rates, addresses, phone numbers, ratings, web sites, e-mail addresses, instant messaging accounts and more. Bento for iPhone features iTunes-style searching and instant sorting to make finds fast and easy, and it integrates with other iPhone apps, allowing users to simply tap on a Bento field to call a contact, view a web site, send an e-mail or display a map.

Bento for iPhone works as a standalone application or can be synchronized with Bento 2.0v5 for Mac or Bento 3 for Mac desktop software (sold separately).

Critical success factors

With Bento, once again FileMaker proves that it's possible to make the complex simple and accessible while at the same time, extending the function of native iPhone functionality in new ways, said Michael Gartenberg, president of strategy and analysis, Interpret, LLC.

Media Praise for Bento for iPhone and iPod touch

Bento for iPhone has received rave reviews from press and bloggers including:

Bento for iPhone/iPod touch: one of my must-have iPhone apps. iPod Observer

How good is the iPhone version of Bento? Id love to see it bundled with every iPhone sold. TUAW

"Bento for the iPhone and iPod touch is an amazing, versatile, and powerful application, making it possible for you to create databases and manage a variety of information, all from your mobile device." Awarded 4.5 Mice out of 5. MacWorld

"Best App for Personal Databases" - Best iPhone Apps O'Reilly

"... definitely one of the better organizational tools available for any market today. TouchMyApps

About FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker is the leader in easy-to-use database software. Millions of people, from individuals to some of the world's largest companies, rely on FileMaker software to manage, analyze and share vital information. The company's products are the FileMaker Pro line - versatile database software for teams and organizations, for Windows, Mac and the Web - and Bento, the personal database for Mac, iPhone and iPod touch. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple.

Customer contact:

800-325-2747

http://www.filemaker.com

Media contact:

Kevin Mallon

408-987-7227

TuvaBox Website is Launching an Extensive and Resourceful iPod Section

Westchester, CA (PRWEB) October 25, 2008

TuvaBox is a media website recently launched with the constant support of a team of dedicated members, sharing a common interest in entertainment devices, like iPod, PSP or Microsoft Zune. Dealing with the issues of DVD or video conversion for such gadgets, in order to secure a good user viewing experience, TuvaBox members have analyzed and shared their advices into articles, how to-s, tutorials and even a form of online support. Now they have reached a quantity and quality of knowledge about the iPod model, that they have grouped in the form of a website section, the iPod section, that can be reached at http://www.tuvabox.com.

Addressed to the many who fancy their iPod as much as a pet, the iPod section relates to issues ranging from movie conversion to the more hardware specific problems, like changing an iPod battery, or what to do in the case of hard-based malfunctions. The section covers both general, biographical articles like the iPod evolution, and more specific oriented articles, dealing with problems like how to use the screen lock, how to import CDs to iPod using iTunes and many more. The editors have paid special attention to iPod competitors, and henceforth have come with a detailed comparison between the latest iPod models and the Sony PSP. This comparison extends from software capabilities to hardware functionality. If users are interested or unsure about the iPod's advantages or performance levels could look through the well drafted article, where everything is analyzed and balanced.

In terms of functionality, an iPod model, provided it has some sort of video feature, can provide a rewarding experience to a media lover interested in sound quality as well as autonomy. From the iPod video onwards, everyone can recognize the slick and fashionable case design of an iPod, or the white trademark earbuds of the iPod. Replaying music playlists as easy as a personal computer, the iPod has surpassed the simple function of an audio player, being a media icon, backed up by the Apple fame that was reached through other achievements like the iMac, Macbook, and the latest iPhone 3G. In the Apple universe, the iPod was a founding stone, because it was the iPod that brought for the first time and at a worldwide level, fame and fortune. Henceforth, it was only normal that the web would be filling up with countless iPod related websites, offering support and the like. But among all these websites, TuvaBox really stands out through the reliable information it provides, the team's dedication that sustains a constant update of the website as well as a source of interesting news about the media world.

One of their biggest pluses is the form of online support that iPod lovers can make use of whenever they face a problem. The process is fairly simple, the user just types in his or hers problem, and one of the website's editors will research their problem and try to offer the best available solution to it. As an example, due to the multitude of video formats present at this date, it is only convenient to someone who relies on a converter to view movies directly from an iPod, to have a place from where he can find out what to do in order to have the best viewing experiences.

TuvaBox stands out among its peers through reliable information, constant website updating and resourceful entertainment news, now coupled up with an extensive iPod website section (as detailed at http://www.tuvabox.com/Press/2008-09-04-TuvaBox-iPod-section.aspx ), covering most iPod issues from soft to hardware.

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