The biggest news: Apple has licensed Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone, allowing iPhone users to pour e-mail and calendar information living on their company's Microsoft Exchange systems directly into the iPhone.

FORBES: IPhone Goes Corporate

For U.S. investors without the wherewithal to jump around in international equties, there are exchange-traded funds like the iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund, which counts Siemens, power and gas company E.

FORBES: Buy Germany As Euro Falls