Iphone device not showing up on desktop or in itunes

I connected to my Macbook Pro with the USB connector that came with my new iphone a few weeks ago. This morning when I tried to connect and download music, my device icon does not appear on my desktop or in the itunes left nav bar. Anyone else have this issue?

Your iPhone should never appear on your desktop - the iPhone does not support disk use, so it cannot be mounted like an external disk or an iPod with disk use enabled.
However, it should show up in the devices list in iTunes.
First, do you have another dock cable to try? Any USB dock cable from a recent iPod will work. If that doesn't help, try re-installing iTunes (just download it from here and run the install, no need to uninstall anything). If that doesn't correct the issue, you may need to remove and reinstall AMDS:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1747

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