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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007 12:10pm
Briefly: Apple 10th top sit...
In brief: The Nielsen Company has ranked Apple as the no. 10 top website in the U.S., major record label EMI is promoting a music-based movie on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, FileMaker says users downloaded more than 100,000 copies of its Bento personal database in less than 30 days, and TotalView Technologies' MemoryScape has received Supercomputing Online's 2007 Product of the Year Award. Nielsen's year-end look at the most popular trends among Americans during 2007 found that Apple ranked no. 10 in the top 10 websites, garnering nearly 44 million average unique visits monthly.

>iPhone, iPod touch help promote new movie EMI is using Apple's iPhone and iPod touch to promote a music-based movie called Sigur Ros' Heima by creating an iPhone-optimized 'microsite.' The flick, which covers the Icelandic band's homecoming tour, features a trailer alongside a Yahoo! Maps mash-up tool that allows viewers to navigate over the map of Iceland and click on the various locations where Sigur Ros performed. FileMaker's Bento sees 100,000 downloads in 30 days More than 100,000 copies of Bento -- the new personal database by FileMaker -- were downloaded in less than 30 days, according to the company. "It's remarkable that more than 100,000 users have downloaded Bento even though the new Mac OS X Leopard has only been on the market for two months," said FileMaker president Dominique Goupil. The lightweight personal database application aims to make databases accessible and easy for casual users, doing for contacts as well as spreadsheets and digital photos what iTunes does for digital music. MemoryScape honored by Supercomputing Online Supercomputing Online has honored TotalView Technologies' MemoryScape application with its Editor's Choice 2007 Product of the Year Award. The award is given annually to products with "outstanding innovation in design, value, and performance." MemoryScape serves as a graphical, interactive memory debugger for software developers to help identify as well as resolve difficult memory problems in various programming languages.