Dizgo provides instant coupons, advertising via text messages

BOULDER – Mindy Janke looks for quality discounts in Boulder, but she hates going into multiple stores to find the right prices. She would rather the information find her.

Janke may get her wish.

Boulder’s Dizgo – “discounts on the go” at www.dizgo.com – is launching a patent-pending, ontology-based cell phone text-messaging service in October 2007 at the Pearl Street Mall. Shoppers can use the service to instantly locate discounts for the products they want to purchase.

For example, if Janke was looking for jeans, she sends a free text message to Dizgo’s numeric code with the keyword “jeans.” Seconds later, Dizgo returns…