8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): January 7, 2009

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DRI Corporation(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

North Carolina	000-28539	56-1362926
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

13760 Noel Road, Suite 830, Dallas, Texas 75240

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code (214) 378-8992

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ITEM 7.01     Regulation FD Disclosure

On January 7, 2009, DRI Corporation announced that the Company’s Mobitec Group in Sweden will participate as an exhibitor at Busworld India, a transit industry event slated January 14-16, 2009, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.

A copy of the Company's press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. This Form 8-K and the attached exhibit are furnished to, but not filed with, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

ITEM 9.01     Financial Statements and Exhibits

(a)       Exhibits.
           99.1      Press release dated January 7, 2009.

Signature(s)

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

		DRI CORPORATION
Date:	January 7, 2009	By:	/s/ STEPHEN P. SLAY
			Stephen P. Slay
			Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT NUMBER	DESCRIPTION
99.1	Press release dated January 7, 2009.

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

DRI Corporation Announces Participation in International Transit Industry Exhibition

Mobitec Group to Exhibit at Busworld India, Jan. 14-16, 2009

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 7, 2009--DRI Corporation (DRI) (NASDAQ: TBUS), a digital communications technology leader in the domestic and international surface transportation and transit security markets, announced today that the Company’s Mobitec Group in Sweden will participate as an exhibitor at Busworld India, a transit industry event slated Jan. 14-16, 2009, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.

David L. Turney, the Company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: “Busworld India is one of the larger dedicated transit industry events in Asia in 2009. Mobitec Group’s sales and marketing representatives will discuss Mobitec® products and services with customers and prospective customers at exhibit booth number 19. This exhibition addresses an exciting and growing market in which we have achieved notable success. We believe that India will continue to be a significant opportunity for us. Not only are we serving our customers through our facilities in Delhi, but we are also continuing the engineering development capabilities that we initiated there in 2008. In addition, we are planning to start product assembly operations there in 2009.”

For more information about Busworld India, visit www.busworldindia.com.

ABOUT MOBITEC GROUP

Mobitec Group, a leading global supplier of electronic information display systems, is highly respected for its products, technology, service, and quality. Mobitec Group is based in Herrljunga, Sweden. It also operates business units in Australia and Germany, as well as joint ventures in Brazil and India. For more information, visit www.mobitec.eu.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

DRI is a digital communications technology leader in the domestic and international public transportation and transit security markets. Our products include: TwinVision® and Mobitec® electronic destination sign systems, Talking Bus® voice announcement systems, Digital Recorders® Internet-based passenger information and automatic vehicle location/monitoring systems, and VacTell™ video actionable intelligence systems. Our products help increase the mobility, flow, safety, and security of people who rely upon transportation infrastructure around the globe. Using proprietary hardware and software applications, our products provide easy-to-understand, real-time information that assists users and operators of transit bus and rail vehicles in locating, identifying, boarding, tracking, scheduling, and managing those vehicles. Our products also aid transit vehicle operators in their quest to increase ridership and reduce fuel consumption, as well as to identify and mitigate security risks on transit vehicles. Positioned not only to serve and address mobility, energy conservation, and environmental concerns, our products also serve the growing U.S. Homeland Security market. For more information about the Company and its operations worldwide, go to www.digrec.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In particular, statements concerning the Busworld India attendees’ anticipated interest in the Company’s transit communications and security products and services marketed via an exhibit at the event, statements about our perceived future growth opportunities and planned product assemblies operations in India, as well as any statement, express or implied, concerning future events or expectations is a forward-looking statement. Use of words such as “expect,” “fully expect,” “expected,” “appears,” “believe,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “would,” “goal,” “potential,” “potentially,” “range,” “pursuit,” “run rate,” “stronger,” “preliminarily,” etc., is intended to identify forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties that Busworld India attendees may not express considerable interest in the Company’s transit communications and security products and services, or that our expectations regarding future growth or assembly operations in India may not materialize, as well as other risks and uncertainties set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 31, 2008, and as updated in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed Nov. 14, 2008, particularly those identified in Risk Factors Affecting Our Business. There can be no assurance that any expectation, express or implied, in a forward-looking statement will prove correct or that the contemplated event or result will occur as anticipated.

CONTACT:
DRI Corporation Contact:
Veronica B. Marks
Manager, Corporate Communications
Phone: (214) 378-4776
Fax: (214) 378-8437
E-Mail: ir@digrec.com