The Fed, which favors monitoring core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, tried to show that consumer price inflation is an active concern.

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Equipped with new Bluetooth Smart Ready technology, the CORE 2 will enable live updates of body monitoring data captured with the armband to BodyMedia's mobile app on Smart Ready-enabled smartphones and tablets, eliminating the delays involved in computer upload.

ENGADGET: BodyMedia's CORE 2 armband tracks your health, or lack thereof

Social, at its core, is about getting closer to the customer and monitoring enables it.

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To keep the form factor small but offer heart rate monitoring for fitness purposes to those who want it, the CORE 2 will give consumers the option to purchase an accessory strap with an embedded heart rate sensor.

ENGADGET: BodyMedia's CORE 2 armband tracks your health, or lack thereof

This will be critical to integrate mobile solutions across monitoring, wellness, and reminder services, which together represent the core of the mHealth opportunity.

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