Q: I've been thinking about alternative ways of tracking a potentially lost/stolen laptop...I've been having trouble with Computrace Lojack for Laptops (they're working on a fix) being incompatible with some of my software and causing Windows errors. What about using a GPS enabled cellphone to track the computer? Verizon has the Chaperone Child/Parent service - maybe there's a way to get a really cheap/small phone and fit it inside the computer somewhere...tie in a modified charger to the laptop's charger port and it could use it's own battery for power and the laptop's power as a regenerative power supply to charge the cellphone when the laptop is plugged in, most cellphones will operate for nearly a week idle on a charge...and laptops usually need charging daily. Thoughts? Good? Bad? I suppose the next step could be a ExpressCard or PCMCIA card that spoofs a micro-drive (memory and all) and has a hidden GPS transciever - maybe even use it as a backup memory and then you could use the cellular/GPS transciever to recover your important data remotely. Or has this been done somewhere?
A: there apre professional sollutions for exactly this. Computer security companies in your area might be able to better help you on this, i'm not a hardware man.