Tech Talk Radio

Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz with Jim Russ, Tech Talk Radio is a mixture of fun and technology. Not too heavy and not too light.


  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. What to do when when your hard drive fails. And we meet the designer of the first computer-driven word processor.
    October 6, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. What to do when someone takes over your Facebook account And we meet the co-founder of the social news website Reddit.
    September 28, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. You can now fix your iPhone somewhere other than the Apple Store and generating power just by looking up at the night sky.
    September 14, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. Dr Shurtz reports remotely from the Northern Neck Virginia region on Hurricanes. Why do they rotate differently in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?…
    September 7, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. Why your email sometimes gets automatically delayed. And we meet one of the pioneers of modern weather forecasting.
    August 31, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. Buying a Chromebook? Watch for the expiration date. And we meet one of the female pioneers in IT.
    August 24, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. How to connect your iPhone to your car audio system. And we meet an IT pioneer whose motto was: “People first, products and…
    August 17, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. How protect yourself from the “ring scam.” That’s when you get a phone call from a number you don’t know and the call…
    August 10, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. Tips on how to avoid phishing scams and we meet the Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the…
    August 3, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. How make sure your wi-fi is not vulnerable at a hotel. And we meet the father of the cell phone.
    July 27, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. How to block people’s posts on Facebook without actually unfriending them. And we meet the Canadian entrepreneur best known for being a co-founder…
    July 20, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. Editing home video to upload onto YouTube. And we meet the British computer security researcher best known for temporarily stopping the WannaCry ransomware…
    July 14, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. What to do when Microsoft stops supporting your version of Windows. And we meet the man who invented an early walkie-talkie, Citizen’s Band…
    July 6, 2019
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. Buying a wireless charger for your phone. And meet a computer scientist who was instrumental in creating the design for today’s mobile phone.
    June 29, 2019