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Over the past six months, Apple's stock is down over $300 per share, and the total loss of market value adds up to about $290 billion. Yeah, billion with a "b". What's behind this? Apple hasn't suddenly imploded that I'm aware of, and they are still selling boat loads of iPads and iPhones.

I have a young daughter (age 9) who likes to just watch me play games as well as play on her own. I don't play Borderlands or Gears of War with her around, but she likes to watch games like Zelda: Skyward Sword on the Wii and we've played Lego Lord of the Rings on the x360 together.

Recently, things like the internal links to news stories at Wired and the log-in here at IT World won't work with Chrome. I've had to switch over to Firefox to fully use both sites. This is also happening at some other websites too, although the majority of sites still work fine.

Most of the speculation is that it will be sometime this spring. Google has introduced new versions of Android at Google I/O in the past, and there was leaked material from Qualcomm that suggested a spring 2013 release as well. Assuming that is correct, and of course it may not be, it will still take some time until you see 5.0 "in the wild".

They are similar but different. The cost is pretty close, although you have to pay $79 for a year's membership in Amazon Prime in a single payment vs $7.99 a month for Netflix. Netflix has a generally wider selection of movies and shows, but there is a lot of overlap between them and Amazon.

If you have limited needs for a network, say for example, you just want to be able to share a printer with all of your machines, then you may be ok with peer-to-peer.

I was using custom domains that were assigned to user names with Lync Online, and that seems to be preventing me from using them with Office 365. Any idea how I go about reusing them?

I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 on my laptop, but when I went to use BitLocker to encrypt the drive, I couldn't find where to access it. Any ideas how to access BitLocker in Windows 8?

The range is pretty short, as you noted. Otherwise, sure, you can do it, but the speed is going to be crawling slow vs. WiFi. I think the max transfer speed over Bluetooth is around 1Mbps, which is pretty pathetic compared to even a crummy internet connection over WiFi.

If you are looking to get solid software but don't have money to spend, why not just go with Google Apps or Open Office.  Obviously, your needs will differ based on your major, but for the most part you need the basics - a decent word processor, a good calendar, and perhaps a spreadsheet.

Does anyone know what the InPrivate browser setting on IE actually hides and doesn't hide?