Laptop is not recognizing Iphone 5s whenever its plugged in or over the wifi to sync with itunes.

I want to sync my Iphone 5s with my laptop running windows 8. I plug in my phone and its not showing up on my itunes. It usually also shows up whenever they are both on the same wifi connection.

I am suddenly experiencing a similar issue with both my iPhone 3GS and my iPad 2. Though both are set to sync over WiFi -- and have many times in the past, including earlier today -- they both suddenly are invisible to iTunes over WiFi.
The iPad 2 becomes visible to iTunes when I plug it in via the USB cable and can sync that way. The iPhone 3GS, however, received this error message when I plugged it in via the USB cable:
"iTunes could not connect to the iPhone "iPhone" because an error occurred while reading the device."
Both devices have successfully synced both over WiFi and via USB cable up to this point. Now, the iPad 2 can only sync via USB cable and the iPhone 3GS cannot sync or be seen by iTunes at all.
OS X Version 10.8.2, iTunes 10.7
iPad 2, IOS 6.0
iPhone 3GS, IOS 6.0

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