Display apparatus and portable information processing apparatus

A display apparatus, comprising:

• communicating means which performs at least receiving of a plurality of pieces of display data;
• first storage means for storing received plurality of pieces of display data;
• second storage means for storing at least one piece of first icon information corresponding to at least one of said pieces of display data and at least one piece of second icon information of a display form different from that of said first icon information;
• displaying means for displaying, on a menu screen, at least one of said first icon information and said second icon information;
• controlling means for selecting said first icon information or said second icon information based on the number of pieces of display data newly registered in said first storage means and for controlling said displaying means so that the selected icon information is displayed on said menu screen;
• wherein, when the number of pieces of said first icon information is such that the sum of display areas of said pieces of first icon information falls within a predetermined region of said menu screen, said pieces of first icon information are displayed in accordance with the number of the pieces of display data;
• whereas, when the number of pieces of said first icon information is such that the sum of said display areas does not fall within said predetermined region of said menu screen, said second icon information is displayed commonly for said plurality of pieces of display data;
• and
• wherein said controlling means performs selection between said first icon information and said second icon information based on the number of the pieces of said first icon information to be displayed.