With the iPhone 5 now taking advantage of the latest network technology on three major U.S. carriers (and the fourth seeking to crash the party), the relationship between the two products has shifted, with the iPod touch becoming more about who the users are rather than what they want to spend.

ENGADGET: Switched On: The iPod's modern family

The company also launched its first major initiative to build additional control plane technology into its network infrastructure.

ENGADGET: Verizon issues Q2 earnings, touts $15.8 billion service revenues in Wireless

Loke says Proton needs a global alliance with a major player that can provide technology and a big distribution network.

CNN: Local Win, Global Worries

If you're Clearwire or Sprint right now, the last thing you want to hear is one of the world's major suppliers of wireless infrastructure badmouthing the very technology that underpins your next-gen network -- so we imagine there's some groaning in the hallways and boardrooms of the world's WiMAX carriers today.

ENGADGET: Major infrastucture supplier calls it: LTE over WiMAX

In association with the program, Qualcomm has been named as an official technology partner of MLBAM, which is unique in that network engineers from QTI will be working directly with a major professional sports property to address these connectivity challenges.

ENGADGET: MLB stamps partnership with Qualcomm, hopes it leads to improved connectivity at ballparks