Skype has just released a plug-in that allows its internet telephony program to be controlled by the IR handsets of PCs running Windows XP Media Center Edition.
http://share.skype.com/developer_zon..._mce/#readmoreChristoph Buenger has written and submitted an MCE plug-in that will allow you to listen to voicemails, accept or reject incoming calls. It will even pause the current program and allow you to take the call, and then when you are finished it will resume the program from where you left off.