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HAWAII
Cowabunga is offering monitors

Cowabunga Computers, a 5-year-old Honolulu company that provides computer repair, consulting and Web design and management, is working with nonprofit organizations and schools to find homes statewide for nearly 400 PC monitors.

"We have been fortunate to work with a client who will be upgrading some equipment and has given us the responsibility of donating all of these great monitors," Cowabunga President Yasuo Ogawa said.

Schools or nonprofits interested in the 15-inch liquid crystal display monitors can call Ogawa at 949-6888.

NATION
2 Nortel executives quit company

OTTAWA » The Nortel Networks Corp. said yesterday that its No. 2 officer had resigned after three months because of professional differences with the chief executive.

The executive, Gary Daichendt, had been president and chief operating officer. The chief technology officer, Gary Kunis, who was recruited by Daichendt, also quit.

In March, the chief executive, William A. Owens, took credit for hiring Daichendt, who was once executive vice president for worldwide operations at Cisco Systems, calling him "a world-class leader with unquestioned integrity, and one of the top technology executives in the world."

But in a statement yesterday, Owens, who will assume the posts of president and chief operating officer, blamed poor chemistry for Daichendt's abrupt departure.

"Gary has made a major contribution to Nortel during his time here and has added value to our strategic initiatives and business plan," Owens, who is also vice chairman, said. "It has become apparent to Gary and me, however, that we have divergent management styles, and our business views differ."

WORLD
Eurotunnel chief quits in protest

PARIS » Little more than a year after a revolt of French shareholders threw out the board of Eurotunnel, a boardroom brawl has erupted the week before shareholders meet again. The chief executive resigned yesterday, saying he would not tolerate public criticism by the chairman.

Jean-Louis Raymond, who was named chief executive by the board that was elected in April 2004, quit the day after Jacques Gounon, the chairman, expressed doubts about a deal Raymond negotiated with unions that provided for payments for workers who left voluntarily. But Raymond, 64, said he was not giving up his board seat and would like his job back.