- The marketing chief of Sony PlayStation, Alan Welsman, is resigning to join Speedy Tomato, an Internet portal. He has been with Sony for seven years and feels it is time for a new challenge. - Speedy Tomato will launch commercially in early next year, initially offering basic services like personalized email and news delivered to mobile phones. - The chief executive of Sega Europe, Jean-Francois Cecillon, has also resigned, fueling speculation that Dreamcast is losing market share to PlayStation 2.